Saturday, 26 September 2015

Why validation is important in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.

Validation of Process undertaken for pharmaceutical manufacturing and Testing Procedures adapted for is one of important requirement of regulatory agencies across the globe, hence it is mandatory as well. Good manufacturing practices published by Food and Drugs Administration give emphasis on validation, it is requirement of law as well.

Moreover adapting validated procedures ensure that the product being manufactured will meet all required and set standards, and chances of failure are almost negligible or are not there.

Definition for Validation in Pharma:
Validation means exhibiting with evidence, set of written documents for confidence on the process adapted for manufacturing of a pharmaceutical product. Confidence of the correctness and surety of the accuracy and adherence of set parameters for the drug product manufactured with the adapted process and recording and documenting each and every evidence and readings of pharmaceutical process or procedure or method, in order to prove the confidence of adherence to the desired set parameters which yield final pharmaceutical product or the test procedure or a procedure is complying with all required standards set for the pharmaceutical product.
Gaining confidence on adapted procedure is the first step for validation of the process.
Which involves gaining or exhibiting confidence of adherence towards desired parameters and standards for the items equipment's, persons, environmental conditions, material, test procedures etc.
Machinery:

Personnel: Trained and Qualified personnel to carryout the process of pharmaceutical manufacturing, good manufacturing practices guidelines of food and drugs administration has given great emphasis on personnel, and hygiene.
Material : Tested and certified, material that meets pharmacopoeial standards, and sourced from an approved source

Procedure: A procedure that is previously tested for its correctness by team of experts.
Environmental conditions: Many instance environmental conditions too are very important for a pharmaceutical product to meet the required standards, hence it is very important factor failure to meet this may result in failure of product.

Equipment's: A suitable and a correct equipment selection for pharma manufacturing is important
A systematic approach to qualify equipment design, and qualify installation and carry out installation procedure is required to be followed, Standard Operating Procedures are established and equipment must be operated by following standard operating procedures.

Design Qualification: A design that is most suitable for product is designed and given to vendor or alternatively vendor may suggest the suitable design for selection, this step is very important as selection of a faulty designed equipment may lead to troublesome procedures.
Installation Qualification: Equipment should be properly and accurately installed or it may lead to difficulties in operations and then nonconfirances.

Verification of equipment performance: Before taking a pharmaceutical product for manufacturing on the installed equipment it should be verified for proper operation.
Every time a batch of pharmaceutical product is manufactured the above discussed practices and procedures must yield a product that is in compliance with required standards, with minimal deviation from standards too is important.

Source: http://www.pharmacistspharmajournal.org/2010/03/validation-in-pharmaceutical.html

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