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This American National Standard (ANS) evaluates various guidance documents, models, and tools to measure and provide a better understanding of quality culture for the pharmaceutical/medical device industry. The standard identifies 5 key focus topics with attributes, characteristics, and measurements …

This standard provides a lifecycle approach using a holistic evaluation of contamination control systems designed to minimize and/or prevent contamination during aseptic processing and ultimately ensure the safety of the products when delivered to the patient. The standard is also applicable to aseptic …

In this book you will find many different approaches to conducting compliant investigations, where compliant is defined as meeting the requirements of the applicable regulatory documents. The information it provides on conducting investigations that will be acceptable to regulatory investigators will …

This chapter is taken from the book Fungi: A Handbook for Life Science Manufacturers and Researchers, edited by Jeanne Moldenhauer.There is a major gap in understanding fungi in general and mold specifically in the pharmaceutical industry. Most mycologists are in academia and fungi are not taught in …

PDA Technical Report No. 13-2 (TR 13-2) Fundamentals of an Environmental Monitoring Program Annex 1: Environmental Monitoring of Facilities Manufacturing Low Bioburden Products, is an addendum to PDA Technical Report No. 13 (TR 13, Revised 2014): Fundamentals of an Environmental Monitoring Program, which …

This first-of-two volume release from prolific author Tim Sandle fills an important void by taking an in-depth look at the way digital technologies are impacting the pharmaceutical and healthcare landscape both now and into the future. He explores how companies have been embracing digital technologies …

This book examines the fundamentals and relationships of water activity, ranging from the measurement of moisture content, water activity, and water sorption isotherms, to ways in which water activity affects microorganisms, chemical reaction rates, drug product formulation and processing and physical …

This Points to Consider document was developed as part of the PDA/BioPhorum Sterilizing Filtration Quality Risk Management Consortium. It provides the reader with points to consider on how to best implement and execute a pre-use/post-sterilization integrity test (PUPSIT) of the final sterilizing grade …

This text, based on workshops led by instructor and author James Vesper, provides practical tools for both a thorough understanding of risk-based CAPA investigations and regulatory acceptable applications.Beginning with topics such as why and how much investigations matter, regulatory …

Focusing on important regulatory and technical updates surrounding isolator design, validation, and operations for aseptic processing, this Points to Consider addresses two primary types of isolators - open and closed - and is intended to support identification and use of modern technology. It does not …

From this book, you will learn a systematic, step-by-step approach for validating configurable off-the-shelf software that generates data or controls information about products and processes subject to regulations. You will also get access to templates the authors have used as training tools for more …

This chapter is reprinted and available individually from Good Distribution Practice: A Handbook for Healthcare Manufacturers and Suppliers, Volume 1 edited by Siegfried Schmitt, a text that collects in one place invaluable and comprehensive regulatory, manufacturing and distribution guidance and …

This chapter is reprinted and available individually from Good Distribution Practice: A Handbook for Healthcare Manufacturers and Suppliers, Volume 1 edited by Siegfried Schmitt, a text that collects in one place invaluable and comprehensive regulatory, manufacturing and distribution guidance and …

Building Value into Biotechnology Development and ManufacturingThe magnitude of knowledge and experience required to have a meaningful impact on biotechnology product approvals and market success is monumental. For the first time, expertly crafted chapter is reprinted from Biotechnology From Idea to …

Building Value into Biotechnology Development and ManufacturingThe magnitude of knowledge and experience required to have a meaningful impact on biotechnology product approvals and market success is monumental. For the first time, expertly crafted chapter is reprinted from Biotechnology From Idea to …

Building Value into Biotechnology Development and ManufacturingThe magnitude of knowledge and experience required to have a meaningful impact on biotechnology product approvals and market success is monumental. For the first time, expertly crafted chapter is reprinted from Biotechnology From Idea to …

Help Solving Manufacturing Process ProblemsRussell Madsen and Maik Jornitz have assembled and edited fascinating stories of incidents from their own experiences and those of other long serving industry practitioners and experts. Reprinted from their text: Lessons of Failure: When Things Go Wrong in Pharmaceutical …

The best way to handle Warning Letters issued by the U.S. FDA is to prevent them. This text identifies and discusses those Letters recently issued, offers analysis, and provides guidance to help readers avoid receiving such a letter.In addition to the Warning Letter summaries there is discussion of …

This text can help identify and ameliorate fungal and mold problems and contains a wealth of information as a guide and reference. Many topics are discussed relevant to the food and agriculture industries, including the biology of fungi, outbreaks associated with pharmaceutical drug products and medical …

Risk-Based Software Validation: Ten Easy Steps, offers a systematic, ten-step approach, from the decision to validate to the assessment of the validation outcome, for validating configurable off-the-shelf (COTS) computer software that generates data or controls information about products and …