5 min. reading time | by Stephanie Blum

Reference standards

Pharmacopoeial standards are obtained by the chemicals officer from the issuing body and do not require further characterisation before use.

5 min. reading time | by Sabine Paris

The Swiss Biotech Day 2023 took place on 24 and 25 April in Basel. The conference is one of the industry's most important meeting places for developers and manufacturers of biopharmaceuticals and is growing in popularity every year.

10 min. reading time | by Petra Berlemann

A software quality plan – what is it and how do you create such a document?

7 min. reading time | by Thomas Peither

You know the sustainability goals in your company, such as achieving CO₂ neutrality by 2030 or 2050. But what does that have to do with GMP?

9 min. reading time | by Harald Flechl, Senior Engineer

7 min. reading time | by Simone Ferrante

Assessment of GxP relevance

Every upcoming change must be checked for GxP-relevance by the responsible person for GDP.

4 min. reading time | by Fritz Röder

Pharmaceutical water systems are used for a number of different applications by pharmaceutical manufacturers. These include, for example, the cleaning of various pieces of equipment, the generation of pure steam and the use of water as an ingredient for solid, semi-solid and liquid medicinal products.

7 min reading time | by Stephanie Blum, PhD

In the course of an audit, the auditors collect the information necessary to achieve the audit objectives on a sample basis, e.g. by inspecting premises, observing operations, interviewing personnel and examining documents and records. Interviews may be conducted at any time during the audit, including during the walkthrough and review of documentation.

8 min. reading time | by Thomas Peither

In this feature we take look at the ‘black sheep’ of pharmaceutical production. As cute and charming as they may be in the animal world, in the world of GMP they can be rather disturbing.

9 min. reading time | by Petra Berlemann and Thomas Peither

User Requirements, User Requirements Specification (URS), Specification Sheet

What is it? How do you create such documents? Is it all the same? Or is it something completely different?

9 min. reading time |

The life cycle of an equipment begins with initial qualification and ends with decommissioning. Once a qualification status has been achieved, it must be guaranteed over the entire life cycle until the equipment is decommissioned.

13 Min. reading time | by Doris Borchert, PhD, and Christian Gausepohl, PhD

To err is human - and is only too willingly used as the most probable cause for deviations of all kinds. It is also temptingly easy to look for the cause of error in individual (mis)behaviour.Everyone has a bad day, is distracted or unfocused, forgets or mixes things up and makes mistakes, even though they "actually" know how to do it correctly.

7 min. reading time | by Thomas Peither

Standards such as those in the DIN EN ISO series are not laws, so ISO standards differ quite fundamentally from legally binding regulations. Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), on the other hand, is laid down in laws, regulations and guidelines.

11 min. reading time | by Thomas Peither

A definition of the term “qualification master plan (QMP)“ is not to be found in the GMP guidelines, only the term “validation master plan (VMP)”, which serves as a parent document.

11 min. reading time | by Cornelia Wawretschek, Jens Hrach, PhD

Cleaning Validation

6 min. reading time | by Simone Ferrante

GMP or GDP – Which applies for importation?

Although the import of medicinal products is an act related to dis-tribution and logistics, this activity is considered GMP relevant in the EU and is therefore subject to GMP requirements.

8 min. reading time | by Richard Denk

The first draft of version 9 of Annex 1 of the EU GMP Guide on 20 December 2017 attracted a lot of interest globally – firstly because it was the first publication on the topic in almost a decade, and secondly because PIC/S and WHO co-authored the document.

6 min. reading time | by Christine Oechslein, PhD

The quality of a medicinal product cannot be left to chance, but must be the result of carefully planned actions. The sequence "planning, acting, evaluating, improving" is referred to as "management".

9 min. reading time | by Frank Studt and Thomas Peither

7 min. reading time | by Christine Oechslein, PhD