GMP Production
GMP Production
Practices
Guilin, PRC
Dr AJ van Zyl
for
Quality Assurance and Safety: Medicines
Medicines Policy and Standards
Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals Cluster
World Health Organization
Program
Good Manufacturing Practices
Presentation on GMP (Production focus)
Product specific focus
Group session
Presentation on GMP (QC focus)
Product specific focus
Group session
Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP)
Introduction
General considerations
Glossary
Quality management in the drug industry: philosophy and
essential
elements
1. Quality assurance
2. Good manufacturing practices for pharmaceutical products
(GMP)
3. Sanitation and hygiene
4. Qualification and validation
5. Complaints
6. Product recalls
7. Contract production and analysis
General
The contract giver
The contract accepter
The contract
Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP)
8. Self-inspection and quality audits
Items for self-inspection
Self-inspection team
Frequency of self-inspection
Self-inspection report
Follow-up action
Quality audit
Suppliers audits and approval
9. Personnel
General
Key personnel
10. Training
11. Personal hygiene
12. Premises
General
Ancillary areas
Storage areas
Weighing areas
Production areas
Quality control areas
Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP)
13. Equipment
14. Materials
General
Starting materials
Packaging materials
Intermediate and bulk products
Finished products
Rejected, recovered, reprocessed and reworked
materials
Recalled products
Returned goods
Reagents and culture media
Reference standards
Waste materials
Miscellaneous
15. Documentation
General
Documents required
Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP)
Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP)
Production
Utilities
Equipment
Dosage form and data
verification (development,
validation, biobatch, stability,
BMR and specification)
Quality control
API, excipients
Packaging material
Data verification (e.g. stability)
Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP)
Production
Product focus
Premises
Utilities
Equipment
Dosage form and data
verification (development,
validation, biobatch, stability,
BMR and specification)
Documentation
Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP)
Where to start the inspection?
Facility layout
Flow of personnel and
material, activities
Product list
Type of products, dosage
forms, activities
Utilities (HVAC, water, etc)
Validation status
QC
Offices
Canteen
Gowning
Incoming
goods
Corridor
Shipping
Corridor
Corridor
Raw
Materials
&
Packaging Weighing
Storage
Zone: Clean
Processing
Washing
Filling
Packaging Finished
Products
Storage
Machine
Shop
Packaging
Controlled
Corridor
Waste Treatment
Facility layout
Flow of personnel and material,
activities
Facility layout
Flow of personnel and material,
activities
Product list
Type of products, dosage forms,
activities
Multi-product
Various tablets
Uncoated artesunate
Risk of cross-contamination and
contamination
Non dedicated areas and
equipment
Batch to batch consistency
Facility layout
Flow of personnel and material,
activities
Utilities
The environment may be influenced by:
Light
Temperature
Humidity
Air movement
Microbial contamination
Particulate contamination
Utilities
HVAC: GMP and GEP
Effective ventilation
Cross-contamination and
contamination
Qualification/validation
Design
Installation
Operation
Performance
QC
Offices
Canteen
Gowning
Incoming
goods
Corridor
Shipping
Corridor
Corridor
Raw
Materials
&
Packaging Weighing
Storage
Red: Supply
Processing
Washing
Filling
Packaging Finished
Products
Storage
Machine
Shop
Corridor
Waste Treatment
Green: Exhaust
Filters
Fan
Control damper
Humidifier
Cooling coil
Ducts
Validation status
Validation Master Plan
Manufacturing areas
Utilities
Equipment
Manufacturing process
Cleaning validation
Computer systems
Others
On site verification
P o w d e r
C o n t a in e r
F lo o r S c a le
Weighing
Granulation
Blending
Blister line
AHU
Cooling coil
Relative humidity
Dehumidifier
Particulate matter
Filters
Fan
S E C O N D A R Y
F IL T E R
S U P P LY
A IR F A N
C O O L IN G C O IL
P R IM A R Y
F IL T E R
A IR H A N D LIN G U N IT
HEPA filters
installed?
P r o d u c tio n
R oom
Water
must be
UV light
kept
circulatin
g
HCl
NaOH
5
4
3
2
1
5
4
3
2
1
Cationic column
Anionic column
Cartridge
filter 5 m
Eluates to
neutralization
plant
Cartridge
filter 1 m
Ozone generator
Hygienic pump
Return to de-ioniser
Outlets or storage.
Drain line
Air break to sewer
Documentation review
HVAC
DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ
Important aspects including air
flow direction, filtration, air
changes, pressure differentials
Water
DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ
Sampling and testing
Documentation review
Equipment and utilities
SOPs (operation, cleaning,
calibration)
Records and use logs
Calibration records/certificates
Preventative maintenance and
maintenance
Qualification
Documentation review
Product related
Batch Manufacturing document as
per product dossier
Process Validation protocol and
report
Bio-batch records
Stability batches
Batch records
Documentation review
Other documents
SOPs including:
Cleaning
Complaints
Recalls
Validation protocols and reports
including:
Cleaning validation
Computer validation
Documentation review
Inspection of the quality control
laboratory
Group session
Group 1
Group 2
Documentation review
Q
Documentation review
Q