
Explore the basics of good manufacturing practices (GMP), covering production and quality control, documentation, audits, and life-cycle validation to ensure consistent product quality and compliance with quality standards.
Discover the basic requirements of GMP, including qualified and trained personnel, adequate premises and equipment, separate manufacturing and quality control areas, and robust documentation and batch records.
Explore the pharmaceutical quality system and its audit management, including deviation handling, corrective and preventive actions, change and document management, supplier oversight, batch release, and annual reviews.
Discover how GMP premises and equipment must be designed, maintained, and cleaned to prevent cross-contamination and protect product quality, with emphasis on written procedures and HVAC monitoring.
Review equipment requirements in GMP audits, focusing on design, location, maintenance, contamination risk, and access to detailed cleaning procedures in the manufacturing area and storage conditions.
Explore GMP documentation, including good documentation practices, SOPs, protocols, reports, master plans, records, and the design, preparation, reviewing, and distribution of documents.
Identify and prepare specification documents for starting materials, packaging materials, and finished products, detailing tests, pharmacopoeial references, supplier info, sampling directions, acceptance limits, storage conditions, and shelf life.
Quality control evaluates raw materials, intermediates, and finished products under GMP, ensuring independent sampling, testing, reporting, and documentation. It governs method validation, SOPs, labeling, stability analysis, and out-of-specification investigations.
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) is that part of quality assurance which ensures that products are consistently produced and controlled to the quality standards appropriate to their intended use and as required by the marketing authorization.
GMP are aimed primarily at diminishing the risks inherent in any pharmaceutical production.
GMP Audit refers to regular visits to evaluate facilities, production and ensure that all activities are in line with current good manufacturing practices (cGMP).
Quality Management (QM) is a wide-ranging concept, which covers all matters, which individually or collectively influence the quality of a product. It is the sum total of the organised arrangements made with the objective of ensuring that medicinal products are of the quality required for their intended use.
COURSE AGENDA
1 Introduction to GMP & GMP AUDITS
2 General Information about GMP Audits
3 Quality System
3.1. Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
3.2. Basic Requirements of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
3.3. Pharmaceutical Quality System
4 Personnel
4.1. Personnel
4.2. Personnel & Hygiene
5 Premises & Equipments
5.1. General Information about Premises & Equipments
5.2. Premises & Equipments Requirements in Manufacturing Area
5.3. Premises & Equipments Requirements in Storage Area
5.4. Premises & Equipments Requirements in Quality Control
5.5. Equipment
6 Documentation
6.1. General Information about Documentation
6.2. Specification
6.3. Manufacturing Documentation
7 Production
7.1. General Information about Production
7.2. Contamination, Cross Contamination, Mix-up
7.3. Cross-Contamination
8 Quality Control
8.1. General Information
8.2. Good Laboratory Practices
9 Quality Assurance
9.1. Product Quality Review (PQR)
9.2. Complaints
9.3. Change Management
9.4. Deviation
9.5. Corrective Action & Preventive Action
10 Additional Audit Questionare
11 Conclusion