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*Premium members: Download your free copy by 12/5/2025!*Sterilizing filtration is the process of removing microorganisms from a fluid stream without adversely affecting product quality (1-4). This technical report (TR) is intended to provide a systematic approach to selecting and validating the most …

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 …

Technical Report No. 41 (Revised): Virus Retentive Filtration, provides a summary of best practices for utilization of virus filtration in process development and manufacturing. The document explains what virus filters are and where they can be used in current and emerging bioprocesses. Recommendations …

**Winter Booksale: 25% OFF!**ANSI/PDA Standard 02-2021: Cryopreservation of Cells for Use in Cell Therapies, Gene Therapies, and Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing: An Introduction and Best Practices Approach on How to Prepare, Cryopreserve, and Recover Cells, Cell Lines, and Cell-Based Tissue ProductsThis …

This technical report presents a holistic approach for performing a microbiological investigation. It provides a framework to assist with focusing on the investigational areas that may contain or contribute to the root cause of data deviations, such as sampling, test methodology, and suitability of the …

**Winter Booksale: 25% OFF!**This technical report provides guidance for establishing a quality management system for distribution of all types of temperature-sensitive medicinal and pharmaceutical products. This guidance covers the shipping site, where the product is prepared for transportation, …

**Winter Booksale: 25% OFF!**This new standard describes a filter challenge test for standardizing test parameters across laboratories using 47 mm discs and using A. laidlawii as the test organism. While this standard is primarily to educate users and filter manufacturers about best practices for mycoplasma …

This technical report is a consensus-based resource surrounding the challenges encountered in using complex package systems and introduces important elements to consider in decision-making. It also offers an examination of the technologies available for package integrity testing not yet established by …

Visual inspection of filled injectable products is an important part of the control strategy of the manufacturing process. It offers a means to improve quality by removing noncompliant units and provides information to drive continuous process improvement. This technical report addresses test and inspection …

The 2020 PDA Research Particulate Matter in Flexible Containers Survey was undertaken to address the industry-wide concern raised by multiple recalls for particulate matter in flexible container and other container products dating back to 2012.This survey was conducted to establish a benchmark of current …

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's book, Quality by Design — An Indispensable Approach to Accelerate Biopharmaceutical Product Development, edited by industry experts Cristiana Campa, Vaccines Technical R&D, GSK, and M. Amin Khan , Vaccines R&D, GSK, is an important contribution to the ongoing dialogue for accelerating …

The concepts presented in PDA Technical Report No. 60-3 (TR 60-3): Process Validation: A Lifecycle Approach Annex 2: Biopharmaceutical Drug Substances Manufacturing are intended to assist in the design and implementation of globally compliant validation programs to ensure process reproducibility and …

This timely and informative text discusses aspects of contamination control in cleanrooms seldom described in detail in the literature. The increasing number of warning letters, product recalls and 483 observations related to both particulate and microbial contamination indicates that contamination control …

**Winter Booksale: 25% OFF!**ANSI/PDA Standard 04-2021 Phage Retention Nomenclature Rating for Small- and Large-Virus Retentive Filters addresses the use of virus-removal filters that retain viruses by a size-exclusion mechanism. This document should be considered as a guide intended to provide filter …

This second of two volumes details how pharmaceutical and healthcare manufacturers have ben embracing digital technologies as part of the transformation of their business models. It contextualizes current developments and future advancements in terms of the COVID-19 situation of 2020 and specific measures …

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 …