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Why GMP?
Provides a high level assurance that medicines
are manufactured in a way that ensures their
safety, efficacy and quality
Medicines are manufactured to comply with their
marketing authorization
Quality is built in
Testing is part of GMP, but alone does not provide a
good level of quality assurance
Why inspections?
Verify compliance with GMP
Verify compliance with marketing authorization
Dossier: "Dedicated equipment is used"
Inspection: Observation that this means "dedicated while used
for the product or not being used for another product"
Dossier: "The vials are removed from the lyophilliser and
crimped in a grade A environment"
Inspection: Correct, but before crimping they are stored in an
uncontrolled corridor
General
The contract giver
The contract accepter
The contract
Self-inspection team
Frequency of self-inspection
Self-inspection report
Follow-up action
Quality audit
Suppliers audits and approval
9. Personnel
General
Key personnel
10. Training
Ancillary areas
Storage areas
Weighing areas
Production areas
Quality control area
13. Equipment
Starting materials
Packaging materials
Intermediate and bulk products
Finished products
Rejected, recovered, reprocessed and reworked materials
Recalled products
Returned goods
Reagents and culture media
Reference standards
Waste materials
Miscellaneous
Quality Assurance
GMP
Quality Management
The basic elements are:
An appropriate infrastructure or quality system
encompassing the organization structure, procedures,
processes and resources
The systematic actions necessary to ensure adequate
confidence that a product (or service) will satisfy given
requirements for Quality
The totality of these actions is referred to as Quality
Assurance
Quality Assurance
Quality assurance is a management tool
In contractual situations, it also serves to generate
confidence in a supplier
QA, GMP and Quality Control are interrelated aspects of
Quality Management
They are described on the following slides in order to
emphasize their relationship and their fundamental
importance to the production and control of
pharmaceutical products
Quality Assurance
Wide-ranging concept
covers all matters that individually or collectively
influence the quality of a product
Totality of the arrangements
to ensure that the drug is continuously of the right
quality for the intended use
Quality Assurance incorporates GMP
and also includes product design and
development, with special focus on process design
The position of QA
Director
Director
QA
QA
Production
Production
QC lab
lab
QC
Other Depts
Depts
Other
(cont'd)
Complaints handling
Complaints: Principle
All complaints and other information concerning
potentially defective products must be carefully
reviewed according to written procedures and
corrective action should be taken.
Complaints Procedure
Designated responsible person:
To handle complaint
Decide on measure to be taken
May be authorized person - if not, must advise authorized
person of results
Sufficient support staff
Access to records
Written procedure (SOP):
Describes action to be taken
Includes need to consider a recall (e.g. possible product
defect)
Self-Inspection
Purpose is to evaluate whether a companys operations
remain compliant with GMP
The programme should
cover all aspects of production and quality control
be designed to detect shortcomings in the implementation of
GMP
recommend corrective actions
set a timetable for corrective action to be completed
Self-Inspection (cont'd)
Performed by team appointed by management, with:
authority
sufficient experience, expertise in their own field.
knowledge of GMP
may be from inside or outside the company
Frequency should normally be at least once a year
May depend on company requirements
Size of the company and activities
Self-Inspection (cont'd)
Report prepared at completion of inspection,
including:
results
evaluation
conclusions
recommended corrective measures
Follow-up action
Effective follow-up programme
Company management to evaluate both
the report and corrective actions
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