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QUALITY CONTROL
CONTROL
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ASSURANCE
ASSURANCE
CONCEPT OF QUALITY
CONTROL
• Refers to the process of striving to produce a
perfect product
• Requires a series of measures requiring an
organized effort
• Prevent or eliminate errors at every stage in the
production
When?
• Quality must be built in to product during
– Process and product design
• Influenced by
– Physical plant design
– Space,ventilation
– cleanliness and sanitation
• Begins at R&D
• Includes
– Preformulation
– Physical,chemical ,therapeutic and toxicologic considerations
Steps
• Material q.c
• Inprocess q.c
• Product q.c
• Specifications and tests for
– active ingredients
– Excipients
– Product itself
– Stability procedures
– Freedom from microbial contamination
– Storage and labelling
– Containers
• Provision for cross referecing
Quality assurance
• Refractive index
• Specific gravity
• Solubility
• Alcohol content
• GLC can be used
Sweetening agents
• Furfuraldehyde in lactose
• Reducing sugars in mannitol
• Water content,heavy metals,residue
on ignition, arsenic
• Specific rotation
• Melting range
• Selenium
• Readily carbonizable matter
In-process items control
• Identify critical steps in mfg process
• Controlling them within defined limits
• Batch to batch variation
• GMP emphasizes on good
environmental conditions
In-process items control
• Quality assurance before start up
• Quality assurance at start up
• Packaging material contol
• Labels control
• Finished product control
QA before start up
– Environmental and microbiologic control and
sanitation
– Sanitation program at all facilities
– Control insects and rodents
– Personal sanitation
– Floors,walls ,ceilings resistant to external forces
– Adequate ventilation
– Temperature
– Humidity
– Air quality monitoring
QA REVIEWS
• Sanitation
• Cleaning of building and equipment
• Ventilation
• water
Master working formula
procedures (MWFP)
• Documentation of component
materials
• Processing steps
• With production operation
specifications
• Equipment to be used
• Prepared for each batch
QA REVIEWS
• Working formula procedures for each
batch before,during and after
production for the following details
– Signature and date of issue given by a QA
employee
– Proper identification by name and dosage
form
– Item number
– Lot number
– Effective date of the document
QA REVIEWS
– Reference version if any
– Amount
– Lot
– Code numbers of each raw material utilized
– Calculations of both active and inactive
material
– Start and finish times of each operation
– Equipment to be used and specificaation of its
setup.
QA REVIEWS
• Proper labeling of released
components and equipment
– Product name
– Strength
– Lot number
– Item number
QA at start up
i. Raw materials processing
ii. Compounding
iii. Packaging materials control
iv. Labels control
v. Finished product control.
Raw materials control
• Only labelled enterin processing
• QA-should maintain temperature & humidity within
area of specified limits.
• -should check in process procedure with SOP.
• Verify & document the proper equipment,addition of
ingredient,mixing & drying time meshsize of sieves
used in screening.
Cont..
• Samples to be taken at certain points
for potency assay& batch purity &
uniformity.
Compounding
• Check labelled r.m staged in compounding staging
area(for cleanliness,manufacturing equipment,item
no.,lot no.,)
• QA-manufacturing process performed acc., to SOP
• -Checks tests to product(thickness,disintegration,etc)
• -documentation to maintained thro;out all stages of
manufacturing
• If deviation-corrective action by resampling.
Packaging materials
control
• Container closure system
• Properties –
• 1.properties of container tightness
• 2.moisture & vapor tightness regardless of
container construction
• 3.toxicity & phy/chem characteristics of
materials needed in container constructions
Cont..
• 4.Phy /chem chages of container upon
prolonged contact with product
• 5.compatibility b/w container & product
• Packaging material should not interact
phy/chem with ff
• Specifications & test methods for light
resistance,tightly & well closed,
• Submit stability data of ff in same container
closure system.
Labels control
• Production control issues a packaging
form that carries-(name,item no.,lot
no., no., of labels,packaging inserts &
material operations,quantity to be
packed
• 1.copy to supervisor of label control
• 2.packaging dept.
Cont.. Supervisor of label
control
• Counts required no., of labels
• >identified & kept in separate
container
• >sent to packaging dept>(accounts to
be maintained if excess destroyed)
Cont.. Packaging dept
• Product & its components
(labels,cartons,insert & packaging
material,stopper ,cap,seal,ship
cases)are supplied & operation done.
Cont…
• QA-all materials are clean,identified
• -all materials of previous packaging
operation removed.
Finished product control
• Specification: Final testing in QC labs-Why?
To determine compliance with SOP prior to
packaging & distribution.
• + In process testing: Stable in ccs.
• Compare-label with product-> available for
complete absorption.
• Test (GMP) parameter done during product dev
-> no toxic foreign and substance detected.
• Results to statistical analysis
• Product specifications -> additional production
experience
Bulk product testing
• Each lot tested for -> ensuring identity,
quality, potency, purity.
• QA -> further processing based on actual phy,
chem, bio, laboratory testing.
• Accurate, specific, economical and acc to
pharmacopeia
• Analytical procedure -> not required until
quality of the product is equal to – compendia
requirement
QA during packing
• QA, QC confirm product ->sent to packing
dept -> QA observes for product & labeling
SOPs visual -> automated testing high speed
equipment & visual.
• 1. QA audit indicates that manufacturing
operations are satisfactory. The bulk product
is released to packing dept and production
control notified
• 2. QA personnel periodically inspects packing
lines and should check filled and labeled
containers for compliance and written
specification.
Contd…
• 3. QA should perform independent inspection
and select finished preservation samples at
random from each lot.
• 4. QA personnel should also select an
appropriate size sample of FF package product
and send to analytical control lab for final
testing.
Auditing
• GMP compliance documented.
• QA should evolutes batch records for in
process controls and of all tests of final
product to determine whether they conform to
specifications
Contd…
• Areas of record keeping:
• 1. Individual components, r.m and packaging materials
MWF and procedures.
• 2. Batch production
• 3. Lab in process and finished control testing
• 4. Proper signing and dating -> by at least 2
individuals independently for each operations in proper
spaces,
• 5. Reconciliation of materials supplied and amts of
tabs produced, taking in to account allowable loss
limits.