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Recently, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) published the new draft guideline on the pharmacokinetic and clinical evaluation of modified release (MR) formulations. The draft guideline contains the new requirement of performing multiple dose (MD) bioequivalence studies, in the case when the MR formulation is expected to show ‘relevant’ drug accumulation at steady state (SS). This new requirement reveals three fundamental issues, which are discussed in the current work: first, measurement for the extent of drug accumulation (MEDA) predicted from single dose (SD) study data; second, its relationship with the percentage residual area under the plasma concentration–time curve ( AUC ) outside the dosing interval (τ) after SD administration, % AUC (τ‐∞) SD ; and third, the rationale for a threshold of % AUC (τ‐∞) SD  that predicts ‘relevant’ drug accumulation at SS. This work revealed that the accumulation ratio  R  A,AUC , derived from the ratio of the time‐averaged plasma concentrations during τ at SS and after SD administration, respectively, is the ‘preferred’ MEDA for MR formulations. A causal relationship was derived between % AUC (τ‐∞) SD  and  R  A,AUC , which is valid for any drug (product) that shows (dose‐ and time‐) linear pharmacokinetics regardless of the shape of the plasma concentration–time curve. Considering  AUC  thresholds from other guidelines together with the causal relationship between % AUC (τ‐∞) SD  and  R  A,AUC  indicates that values of % AUC (τ‐∞) SD  ≤ 20%, resulting in  R  A,AUC  ≤ 1.25, can be considered as leading to non‐relevant drug accumulation. Hence, the authors suggest that 20% for % AUC (τ‐∞) SD  is a reasonable threshold and selection criterion between SD or MD study designs for bioequivalence studies of new MR formulations. © 2014 The Authors  Biopharmaceutics & Drug Disposition  Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Proposal for defining the relevance of drug accumulation derived from single dose study data for modified release dosage forms