# Presentation: 371852

## Potency and Safety Standards for Plasma Derivatives Mei-ying W Yu, PhDDH/OBRR/CBER/FDA90th Blood Products Advisory CommitteeAugust 16, 2007

## Outline

- Introduction
- Potency Standards for Clotting Factors
- Potency and Safety Standards for Immune Globulin and Albumin Products
- Safety Standards for In-Process Control
- Standards under Development

## Introduction (I)

- Division of Hematology (DH) in CBER/FDA has  primary responsibility for the scientific evaluation of manufactured biologic products derived from blood or plasma and their analogs from recombinant DNA technology.
- To ensure their safety and effectiveness, DH personnel have actively participated in developing and establishing CBER/FDA, WHO global potency and safety standards through close collaboration with WHO collaborative centers (e.g., NIBSC and PEI), EDQM (Ph Eur), and industry.
-      (NIBSC: National Institute for Biological Standards and Control; PEI: Paul Ehrlich Institute; EDQM: European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Healthcare; Ph Eur: Pharmacopoeia European)

## Introduction (II)

- CBER/FDA standards are available to IND sponsors or licensed manufacturers
- for setting minimum potency requirements or maximum limits of final-container products
- for lot release testing of final-container products
- For in-process control testing

## Potency Standards for Clotting Factors

## Potency Standard for Factor IX Products 

- Products assayed
- Factor IX Complex (Human), Coagulation Factor IX (Human), Coagulation Factor IX (Recombinant)
- Standard
- WHO 3rd International Standard (IS) for FIX Concentrate (NIBSC 96/854)/Ph Eur/CBER
- 10.7 IU/vial
- Formulated from a Coagulation Factor IX (H) product (manufactured by using monoclonal antibody chromatography)
- Available since 1996
- Need to develop a new replacement standard because of low inventory

*[Report to Biological Standardization Steering Committee.  PA/PH/Bio  (1996) 18, R, August 1996]*

## Potency Standard for Factor VIII Products 

- Products assayed
- Antihemophilic Factor (Human), Antihemophilic Factor (Recombinant)
- Standard
- CBER Mega 2/Ph Eur BRP Batch 3 for FVIII
- 11.4 IU/vial (clotting assay)
-   8.6 IU/vial (chromogenic assay)
- Formulated from a plasma-derived high-purity FVIII preparation provided by CBER/FDA
- Available since 2001after potency calibration against four  Factor VIII concentrate standards, Mega 1, Ph Eur BRP Batch 2, WHO 5th IS, and 6th IS, in a collaborative study

*[Kirschbaum N et al, Pharmeuropa Bio 2002]**  *

## Potency Standard for vWF 

- Product assayed
- Antihemophilic Factor/von Willebrand Factor Complex (Human)
- Standard
- WHO 1st IS for vWF Concentrate (NIBSC 00/514)
- 9.4 IU vWF: Ristocetin Cofactor/ampoule
- Formulated from a vWF concentrate product by NIBSC
- Available since Nov 2001 after potency calibration against WHO 4th IS Factor VIII/vWF Plasma (NIBSC 97/586) in a collaborative study

*[Hubbard AR et al, Thromb Haemost 2002]**  *

## Potency Standard for Thrombin Products 

- Product assayed
- Fibrin Sealant (Human), Thrombin (Bovine)
- Standard
- WHO 2nd IS for Thrombin (NIBSC 01/580)/CBER Lot K
- 110 IU human thrombin/ampoule
- Formulated from human plasma-derived thrombin by NIBSC
- Available since 2003 after potency calibration against 1st IS for Alpha Thrombin (NIBSC 89/588) and US Standard Thrombin, Lot J, in a collaborative study

*[Whitton C et al, Thromb Haemost 2005]*

## Potency and Safety Standards for Immune Globulins and Albumin

## CBER Reference Immune Globulin for Measles and Poliomyelitis Antibody Levels (I) 

- Products
- Immune Globulin (H) (IG), Immune Globulin Intravenous (H) (IGIV), Immune Globulin Subcutaneous (H) (IGSC)
- Standard
- CBER Lot 176, ~2 mL/vial (stored at ≤ -20 oC)
- Formulated from one IG lot, a 16.5% IgG solution, in 1991 and made available since 1992 after a collaborative study with IG and IGIV manufacturers
- Calibrated against Lot 175 for purpose of meeting potency requirements of product lots for anti-measles and anti-polio levels when compared at the same IgG concentration
-  A measles antibody level of NLT 0.6 times the level of Lot 176 when determined by hemagglutination inhibition or by neutralization
- A poliomeylitis antibody level of NLT 0.28 for Type 1, 0.25 for Type 2, or 0.20 for Type 3

## CBER Reference Immune Globulin for Measles and Poliomyelitis Antibody Levels (II) 

- Recently calibrated against the 2nd IS for Anti-Measles Serum Human (NIBSC 66/202)
- 42 IU anti-measles/mL Lot 176
- Also calibrated against the 1st WHO International reference preparation for Anti-Hepatitis A Immunoglobulin and the CBER Reference Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Lot 2 for use as a reference for anti-HBs and anti-HAV levels in immune globulin products
-  2 IU anti-HBs and 95 IU anti-HAV/mL Lot 176
- The need to develop a replacement standard, Lot 177, because of low inventory
- A candidate 10% IGIV preparation available (kindly provided by Baxter)

*[21 CFR 640.104 Potency; Audet S et al, J Infect Dis 2006]*

## CBER Reference Hepatitis B Immune Globulin for Anti-HBs Potency

- Products
- Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (H) (HBIG), Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Intravenous (H) (HBIGIV)
- Standard
- CBER Lot 2,  220 IU anti-HBs/mL (stored at ≤ -20 oC)
- Formulated from an HBIG product, a 17.3% IgG solution,
-    and made available in 1977
- This product was also diluted and freeze-dried for establishment of the 1st International Reference Preparation (50 IU/ampoule; 100 IU/mL) for Anti-HBs Immunoglobulin
- Need to develop the 2nd IS for Anti-HBs Immunoglobulin/CBER Lot 3 in collaboration with NIBSC and PEI  because of depleted supplies of 1st IS/ Lot 2
- A candidate HBIG preparation available (kindly provided by Nabi)

## CBER Reference Prekallikrein Activator (PKA)

- Products
- Albumin products, IGIV, IGSC and some specific IGIVs
- Standard
- CBER Lot 3, 100 IU PKA/mL (stored at ≤ -20 oC)
- Formulated from a highly purified PKA (26 ng/mL of β-Factor XIIa in a 5% Albumin (H) solution)
- Calibrated against Lot 2 in 1987 and found to be equivalent
- Lot 2, 100 IU/mL (calibrated against 1st IS for PKA, NIBSC 85/530, 85 IU/ampoule)
- Max PKA level in PPF, NMT 35.7% of Lot 3
- Need to replace CBER Lot 3 due to dwindling stocks
- Use of 2nd IS (NIBSC 02/168) for PKA, 29 IU/ampoule

## Global Potency Standard for Anti-D Immune Globulin 

- Products
- Rho(D)IG, Rho(D)IGIV
- Standard
- WHO 2nd IS(NIBSC 01/572)/Ph Eur 1st BRP/CBER Lot 4, 285 IU/ampoule
- Formulated in NIBSC from two Rho(D) IG products licensed in the US, one acquired by the FDA and the other kindly donated by Bayer Corp
- Calibrated against WHO 1st IRP for anti-D immunoglobulin (NIBSC 68/419, 300 IU/ampoule) along with 2 other reserve candidate reference preparations and CBER Lot 3 (820 IU/mL) in a collaborative study sponsored by NIBSC, EDQM and CBER/FDA
- Established and available since 2003
- Standard dose for use in preventing HDN, NLT 1500 IU (300 g)

*[Thorpe SJ et al, Vox Sang 2003; Thorpe SJ et al, Pharmeuropa Bio 2003]*

## International Reference Reagents for Anti-D  to Standardize Hemagglutination Testing (I)

- Products
- IGIV, IGSC, and some specific IGIVs
- International Reference Reagents (IRRs)
- WHO IRRs (Positive IRR: NIBSC 02/228 or CBER Lot 1A, 0.0475 IU anti-D/mL 5% IgG; Negative: NIBSC 02/226 or CBER Lot 1N-a)
- Formulated in NIBSC by spiking an anti-D free 5% IGIV (kindly provided by Bio Products Laboratory) with the WHO 2nd IS for Anti-D Immunoglobulin
- IRRs kindly shared with CBER by NIBSC

*[Thorpe SJ et al, Vox Sang 2005]*

## International Reference Reagents for Anti-D  to Standardize Hemagglutination Testing (II) 

- Assayed IRRs and 4 IGIV samples with varying levels of
-    anti-D by a proposed reference method, a direct hemagglutination test, by 19 of 20 labs and in-house indirect antiglobulin tests (IAGTs) by 6/20 labs
- Nominal titer of 8 for positive IRR by the direct method
- Wide interlaboratory variability and less sensitivity by IAGTs
- Need for using positive IRR to define the maximum level of anti-D in immune globulin products and to ensure sufficient sensitivity of hemagglutination testing
- Recommendation by Eur Ph Expert Group 6 B to revise appropriate monograph and to include the specification and the direct test
- Adoption by CBER of the same limit and the direct test after CBER’s preliminary findings that only one of nearly 140 lots of all licensed immune globulin products failed the proposed specification

## Reference Preparations to Control the Level of Anti-D in Immune Globulin Products

- Reference Preparations
- Ph Eur BRP Batch1/CBER Lot 1B (positive control: NIBSC 04/132; negative control: NIBSC 04/140 or CBER Lot 1N-b), 0.0475 IU/mL (nominal titer of 8)
- Formulated by NIBSC similarly to IRRs except with larger fills to be shared with EDQM and CBER
- Calibrated against IRRs with the proposed direct method and found to be indistinguishable
- Maximum anti-D titer for 5% IgG for lot release, NMT the level in positive reference preparation by a direct method

*[Thorpe SJ et al, Biologicals 2006 and Pharmeuropa Bio 2006]*

## Safety Standards for In-Process Control

## CBER Parvovirus B19 DNA Standard (Genotype 1)

- Use
- For validating in-process parvovirus B19 nucleic acid testing (NAT) methods for plasma for further manufacturing as analytical procedures, which are reviewed and approved under Biologics Licensing Applications (BLAs) or their supplements for plasma derivatives (Sep 1999 BPAC recommendation)
- Screening plasma minipools to exclude B19 DNA-positive donations
- Monitoring the level of B19 DNA in manufacturing pools destined for plasma derivatives to ensure that the level does not exceed 104 IU/mL (FDA’s proposed limit)
- Standard
- 106 IU or geq of B19 DNA/mL (1 mL/vial; ≤ -70 C)
- Formulated from a window-period plasma unit and diluted with a cryo-poor, anti-B19 negative plasma pool
- Provided as one of the candidate preparations for the WHO collaborative study to establish an IS for B19 DNA

*[Wu et al, Transfusion 2005]*

## WHO Collaborative Study International Standard for B19 NAT

- Candidate               Log geq/mL   Log IU/mL  Anti-B19
- Preparation
- AA*(NIBSC, FD)	 	5.76                  6.00	            Pos
- BB (NIBSC, FD)	         5.73		 5.96              Pos
- CC (CBER, Liquid)	5.82  		 6.06	         Neg
- DD (CLB, Liquid)	         7.70                   7.94              Neg

- *AA (NIBSC 99/800), WHO 1st IS (5 x 105 IU/vial) in Oct 2000 *[**SaldanhaJ et al,  Vox Sang 2002]*

## CBER Hepatitis A Virus RNA Standard 

- Use
- For validating in-process HAV nucleic acid testing (NAT) methods for plasma for further manufacturing (minipools and manufacturing pools) as analytical procedures, which are reviewed and approved under  BLAs or their supplements for plasma derivatives (Jun 2000 BPAC decision)
- Standard
- 6 x 103 IU or 104 geq of HAV RNA/mL (1 mL/vial; stored at ≤ -70 C)
- Formulated from a window-period plasma unit and diluted with a cryo-poor, anti-HAV negative plasma pool
- Provided as one of the candidate preparations for the WHO collaborative study to establish an IS for HAV RNA

## WHO Collaborative Study International Standard for HAV NAT

- Candidate                	     Log geq/mL       Log IU/mL
- Preparation
- AA*(NIBSC, FD)	      5.29		5.00
- BB (NIBSC, FD)	      5.07		4.78
- CC (CLB, Liquid)	      4.99         	4.70
- DD (ISS, Liquid)	      5.40 		5.11
- EE (CBER, Liquid)	      4.08		3.79

- *AA  (NIBSC 00/560): WHO 1st IS ( 5 x104 IU/vial) in Feb 2003
*[**Saldanha J et al,  Vox Sang 2005]*

## Potency and Safety Standards  Under Development

## Potency and Safety Standards under Development (I)

- 1.  WHO 2nd IS for Anti-HBs Immunoglobulin/CBER Lot 3, in collaboration with Dr. Morag Ferguson of NIBSC
- A candidate 5% HBIG preparation available (kindly provided by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals)
- 2.  CBER Reference Immune Globulin, Lot 177
- A candidate 10% IGIV preparation available (kindly provided by Baxter BioScience)
- 3. Global Reference Preparations for Anti-A and Anti-B  Hemagglutinins to control their levels in immune globulin products and to standardize hemagglutination testing, in collaboration with Dr. Susan Thorpe of NIBSC and Dr. Marie-Emmanuelle Behr-Gross of EDQM
- A candidate negative 5% IGIV preparation derived from type AB plasma donations available (Kindly provided by Baxter BioScience)
- A candidate positive IGIV preparation is being formulated by Dr. Susan Thorpe

## Potency and Safety Standards under Development  (II)

- 4.  Parvovirus B19 Genotype Panel containing all 3 B19 genotypes, in collaboration with Dr. Sally Baylis of NIBSC
- Need to detect all B19 strains (recently classified into 3 genotypes because of genetic diversity) by B19 NAT
- High-titer, window-period donations of both genotypes 2 and 3 available (kindly provided by Baxter BioScience and Talecris Biotherapeutics to NIBSC and CBER)
- Negative plasma donations totaling ~20 liters (not detectable by NAT for HIV, HCV, HBV, B19, HAV, WNV as well as negative by EIA for anti-B19 IgG) available (kindly provided by National Genetics Institute)
- Formulation of a negative plasma pool used as a negative panel member and a diluent for viral stocks
- 5. WHO 4th IS for Factor IX Concentrate, in collaboration with Dr. Elaine Gray of NIBSC

## Conclusion

- DH personnel in CBER/FDA will continue active participation in developing biological standards when needed and in testing candidate materials, in collaboration with WHO collaborative centers, EDQM, and industry to ensure the safety and effectiveness of plasma-derived products and their analogs.