GMP LOGFILE: Lead Article

8 min. reading time | by Sabine Paris

In 2015, with the revision of Chapters 3 and 5 and Annex 15 of the EU GMP Guide and with the publication of the EMA PDE Guideline a paradigm shift took place in establishing limit values for the validation of cleaning processes.

18 min. reading time

Today’s feature focuses on GMP risk analysis. It is an excerpt from the E-Learning GMP:READY – GMP for Engineers. GMP:READY provides knowledge for the planning, qualification and maintenance of the pharmaceutical equipment and facilities.

5 min. reading time | by Markus Veit

Introduction

This chapter deals with the practical aspects of implementing the European requirements for data integrity.

12 min. reading time | by Dr. Sabine Paris

The deficiency

Time specifications for the start of production (preparation from 8:30) and for the end of production (15:30) were entered in the batch documentation.

12 min. reading time | by Herbert Bendlin

What is rouging?

11 min. reading time | by Sabine Paris

For all of us, the year 2020 turned out quite differently than we had ever imagined. People everywhere are struggling with new challenges. The GMP world was not spared, either. To name just a few: inspections were carried out remotely to a large extent and many regulations remained in draft form for the time being.

8 min. reading time | by Harald Flechl

Over the past several years, wall and ceiling systems have become the established state of the art in finishing technology. The numerous manufacturers of such systems also offer solutions that are suitable for fire zones and large, high rooms – such as warehouse storage rooms.

12 min. reading time | by Tim Sandle

Controlling water quality in pharmaceutical facilities requires an assessment of chemical and microbial risks. Of foremost concern is water-for-injections (WFI). This grade of water can be prepared using either reverse osmosis or by distillation.

10 min. reading time | by Doris Borchert and Christian Gausepohl

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.

10 min. reading time | by Paulino Alonso

ICH Q3D 'Guideline for Elemental Impurities' applies to finished drug products. It provides the basis for an adequate control of elemental impurities (generally referred as 'heavy metals' or 'metallic impurities'). The publication of this guideline has brought several consequences:

10 min. reading time

Every week we publish GMP related questions which you might have asked yourself before. You get short and precise answers, links and working material to the corresponding chapters in the GMP Compliance Adviser.

12 min. reading time | by Doris Borchert

There is a first time for everything - in this case for the digital format of the GMP Conference, which PTS Training Service organised for the 26th time on 1 December 2020.

10 min. reading time | by Richard Denk

The literal meaning of containment is “holding together” or in its common sense “limiting expansion”. In the active ingredient, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries it is understood to mean the enclosure of a production process or a dangerous location.

9 min. reading time | by Felix Michler

The demands on manufacturers in the pharmaceutical industry are constantly increasing. Global competition and the international production and supply of raw materials and active ingredients increase the complexity of supply chains.

6 min. reading time | by Vera Werner

5 min. reading time | by Thomas Peither

In September 2020 the series of virtual autumn conferences of PDA and ISPE started. We were present and pick out some excellent sessions with this LOGFILE feature.

6 min. reading time | by Rainer Gnibl

Excerpt from the GMP Compliance Adviser Chapter 14.J and the GMP Series e-book EU-Compliant Batch Release of Medicinal Products

5 min. reading time | by Lea Joos

The deficiency

During the cleaning validation, the PDE values of the active ingredients were determined in order to implement the EMA Guideline on setting health based exposure limits for use in risk identification in the manufacture of different medicinal products in shared facilities.

3 min. reading time

Is there a normative source for the fact that the reviewer of a document cannot be the same person who prepared it?

5 min. reading time | by Felix Tobias Kern and Liwa Schneider

The correct and consistent classification of deviations into the categories Minor, Major and Critical is a constant challenge for pharmaceutical manufacturers. A systematic specification is a prerequisite for the elimination of subjective components of the classifying QA function and the QPs.