Features:
- Provides practical approaches for integrating the commissioning and validation of GMP facilities
- Contains guidelines for assessing detail, efficiency, quality, and cost of programs
- Includes practical examples of validation documents and SOPs together with a comprehensive glossary of validation terminology
- Presents 20 best practices to use in evaluating validation programs to keep GMPs current
Thoroughly defining the philosophy, application, and processes, Facility Validation: Theory, Practice, and Tools explores the validation issues relevant to the start-up of a new or upgraded manufacturing facility.
- Covers policies, guidelines, and regulations relating to GMPs in the pharmaceutical industry and explores the relationship between these GMPs and the validation process
- Outlines the theory and clarifies the philosophy and key principles of validation such as life-cycle approach and qualification practices
- Includes coverage of common pitfalls and how to avoid them, the difficulties and constraints a validation team has to manage, and the dangers of not adopting and following the recommended best practices
This book makes the case that design, engineering, commissioning, and validation activities can be integrated and streamlined to accelerate a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant start-up effort, and demonstrates how to use best practices to achieve the results you desire in your organization.
Contents
The Regulatory Requirements for Validation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- The Regulatory Requirements of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's)
- The Relationship between Validation and the GMP's
- The Impact of Changing Regulations on the Scope and Extent of Validation
- The Future for the GMP's
The Fundamentals and Essentials of Validation
- Validation Concepts, Definitions and Terminology
- The Philosophy and Key Principles of Validation
- Organizing and Planning for Validation
- The Essential Validation Disciplines
The Practice of Facility Validation
A Typical Life Cycle Approach for the Qualification and Validation of a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility
Twenty Tools Recommended for Facility Validation
- Common Problems associated with Facility Validation
- Good Validation Practices
Good Validation Practices
- The Benefits of Following Good Validation Practices in Facility Validation Projects
- The Consequences of Not Following these Good Validation Practices
Index
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