Patient-specific lots, chain-of-identity, and the regulatory rigor that comes with autologous and allogeneic therapies.
Autologous manufacturing inverts every quality assumption: no retains, no re-runs, no statistical release. Chain of identity must hold from apheresis chair through manufacturing to infusion — across organizations — and a deviation cannot be dispositioned against the next batch, because there is no next batch. There is a patient, waiting.
Programs scale from five patients to five hundred faster than paper travelers and spreadsheet trackers can survive. The quality system either scales with the pipeline or becomes the pipeline’s constraint.
FACT and JACIE standards require a quality program spanning collection, processing, and administration — with chain of identity and custody documented at every transfer. 21 CFR 1271 adds GTP: donor eligibility, processing controls, and tracking from donor to recipient. Commercial products layer full GMP on top, with Part 11 governing the records.
Kintavo holds the thread: identity checkpoints as enforced workflow steps, deviations with patient-impact assessment, and traceability that follows the product across sites and systems.
An apheresis product arrives at manufacturing at 6:40 a.m. Receipt is a two-person identity verification against the collection record — enforced, not procedural. At step four, a viability result lands out of range: the deviation opens with patient-impact assessment routed to the medical monitor before any disposition. The product releases eleven days later with every step, signature, and decision on one record — ready for the FACT inspection and, more importantly, for the patient.
Collection, receipt, each processing step, release, infusion — every custody transfer carries two signatures and a timestamp. When FACT inspectors trace a product, the chain is a record, not a reconstruction.
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