Production in Pharmaceutical Industries

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Production in Pharmaceutical Industries

Production department must follow all Principles of Good Manufacturing


process in order to get Quality defined by respective Manufacturing &
Marketing Authorities.

 Production should be performed and supervised by


competent people.All handling of materials and products,
such as receipt and quarantine, sampling, storage,
labelling, dispensing, processing, packaging and
distribution should be done in accordance with written
procedures or instructions and, where necessary,
recorded.

 All incoming materials should be checked to ensure that


the consignment corresponds to the order. Containers
should be cleaned where necessary and labelled with the
prescribed data.

 Damage to containers and any other problem which


might adversely affect the quality of a material should be
investigated, recorded and reported to the Quality
Control Department.

 Incoming materials and finished products should be


physically or administratively quarantined immediately
after receipt or processing, until they have been released
for use or distribution.

 Intermediate and bulk products purchased as such should


be handled on receipt as though they were starting
materials.

 All materials and products should be stored under the


appropriate conditions established by the manufacturer
and in an orderly fashion to permit batch segregation and
stock rotation.

 Checks on yields, and reconciliation of quantities, should


be carried out as necessary to ensure that there are no
discrepancies outside acceptable limits.Operations on
different products should not be carried out
simultaneously or consecutively in the same room unless
there is no risk of mix-up or crosscontamination.

 At every stage of processing, products and materials


should be protected from microbial and other
contamination.

 When working with dry materials and products, special


precautions should be taken to prevent the generation and
dissemination of dust. This applies particularly to the
handling of highly active or sensitising materials.
 At all times during processing, all materials, bulk
containers, major items of equipment and where
appropriate rooms used should be labelled or otherwise
identified with an indication of the product or material
being processed, its strength (where applicable) and
batch number. Where applicable, this indication should
also mention the stage of production.

 Labels applied to containers, equipment or premises


should be clear, unambiguous and in the company’s
agreed format. It is often helpful in addition to the
wording on the labels to use colours to indicate status
(for example, quarantined, accepted, rejected, clean).

 Checks should be carried out to ensure that pipelines and


other pieces of equipment used for the transportation of
products from one area to another are connected in a
correct manner.

 Any deviation from instructions or procedures should be


avoided as far as possible. If a deviation occurs, it should
be approved in writing by a competent person, with the
involvement of the Quality Control department when
appropriate.

 Access to production premises should be restricted to


authorised personnel.
Sr. No. Topics of Production

Prevention of Cross-Contamination in Production

1. – Technical Measures

– Organisational Measures

2. Validation

Starting materials
– Active substances
3.
– Excipients

4. Processing operations: intermediate and bulk products

5. Packaging materials

6. Packaging operations

7. Finished products

8. Rejected, recovered and returned materials

9. Product shortage due to manufacturing constraints

10 Equipment

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