Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for human pharmaceuticals affects every patient taking a medicine. GMP covers all aspects of the manufacturing process, from defining manufacturing processes to systems for recall and investigation of complaints. Consumers expect that each batch of medicines they take will meet quality standards so that they will be safe and effective. GMPs provide for systems that assure proper design, monitoring, and control of manufacturing processes and facilities. This formal system of controls at a pharmaceutical company, if adequately put into practice, helps to prevent instances of contamination, mix-ups, deviations, failures, and errors. This assures that drug products meet their quality standards. This guidance book is meant as a resource to manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, providing up-to-date information concerning required and recommended quality system practices. It should be used as a companion to the regulations/standards themselves and texts on the specific processes and activities contained within the QMS. As a bonus, this package contains dozens of FDA guidance documents as well as international harmonization documents (WHO, PIC/S, and ICH). A check list for GMP audit is also included based on risk management criteria. An exam complements the extra material.

How have recent changes in domestic and international regulations affected quality management in the development and marketing of medical devices in the US and abroad? Consultants Daniel and Kimmelman take a close look at the Quality System Regulation (QsReg), the ISO 13485: 2003 standard and the ISO/TR 14969: 2004 guidance document as well as a number of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) guidance documents. The authors provide extensive commentary and notes an update their material to include such topics as the incorporation of principles of risk management into the medical device organizations' quality management systems (QMSs) and considerations of combination products. Daniel and Kimmelman include full coverage of the QSReg requirements, descriptions of comparable requirements in the ISO documents, excerpts of the FDA's responses to the QSReg preamble and excerpts from FDA guidance documents related to QMSs.

This guidance book is meant as a resource to manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, providing up-to-date information concerning required and recommended quality system practices. It should be used as a companion to the regulations/standards themselves and texts on the specific processes and activities contained within the QMS. This book includes chapters on US current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP); international GMP; global GMP guides and harmonization; detailed analysis of the requirements and guidances; missing subparts; what inspectors are looking for; and the price of noncompliance. It also includes an appendix with two tabulated comparisons: the first compares US, European-PIC/S, Canadian, and WHO cGMPs, while the second compares US cGMPs with effective quality system elements. The companion CD contains cGMP regulations for sterile products produced by aseptic processing; it also includes updated data of statistical enforcement by the FDA, both domestically and abroad; a detailed glossary; and dozens of FDA guidance documents as well as international regulations (EU and Canada) and harmonization documents (WHO, PIC/S, and ICH). A very comprehensive checklist for a cGMP audit that is based on risk management criteria is also included. Finally, a comprehensive GMP exam is also included.

With global harmonization of regulatory requirements and quality standards and national and global business consolidations ongoing at a fast pace, pharmaceutical manufacturers, suppliers, contractors, and distributors are impacted by continual change. Offering a wide assortment of policy and guidance document references and interpretations, this Sixth Edition is significantly expanded to reflect the increase of information and changing practices in CGMP regulation and pharmaceutical manufacturing and control practices worldwide. An essential companion for every pharmaceutical professional, this guide is updated and expanded by a team of industry experts, each member with extensive experience in industry or academic settings.

Highlighting key issues and differences among GMPs of Europe, Canada, and the WHO, this reference examines US law and governmental policy affecting domestic and multinational pharmaceutical manufacturing. The book recommend pragmatic ways to interpret and comply with FDA CGMP regulation and related criteria. They focus on geographical redistribution of manufacturing facilities, accommodation of a diversity of regulatory and statutory governance, adaptation to disparate human resources, and new growth areas of manufacture and distribution of homeopathic remedies and dietary supplements, in addition to the greater quality control required of pharmacists and other authorized dispensers.

FDA Regulations and Associated Guidance Documents: - Code of Federal Regulation Title 21 Overview - Part 11 Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures (21CFR§11) and Guidance for Industry - Part 26 Mutual Recognition of Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice Reports, Medical Device Quality System Audit Reports, and Certain Medical Device Product Evaluation Reports: United States and The European Community (21CFR§26) - Part 200 Drugs: General (21CFR§200) - Part 207 Requirements for Foreign and Domestic Establishment Registration and Listing for Human Drugs, Including Drugs That Are Regulated Under a Biologics License Application, and Animal Drugs, and The National Drug Code (21CFR§207) - Part 210 Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Processing, Packing, or Holding of Drugs; General (21CFR§210) - Part 211 Current Good Manufacturing Practice for Finished Pharmaceuticals (21CFR§211) - Part 600 Biological Products: General (21CFR§600) - Part 807 Establishment Registration and Device Listing for Manufacturers and Initial Importers of Devices (21CFR§807) - Part 820 Quality System Regulation (21CFR§820) - Part 11, Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures - Scope and Application - Guidance for Industry and FD A Staff: Current Good Manufacturing Practice Requirements for Combination Products - Guidance for Industry: CGMP for Phase 1 Investigational Drugs - Process Validation: General Principles and Practices - PAT - A Frame work for Innovative Pharmaceutical Development, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance - Guidance for Industry: Quality Systems Approach to Pharmaceutical CGMP Regulations - Contract Manufacturing Arrangements for Drugs: Quality Agreements - Formal Dispute Resolution: Scientific and Technical Issues Related to Pharmaceutical CGMP - Formal Dispute Resolution: Sponsor Appeals Above the Division Level Reference Tools: - Glossaries combined in one location - GMP Keyword Index for 21CFR211 - Combined Index for all documents