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Pharmaceutical Validation
Pharmaceutical validation programs are judged on coherence. Facilities, utilities, equipment, processes, laboratories and computerized systems all have to hold together under one control strategy and one change management system.
Typical program scope
- Validation master plan and site validation governance
- Facility, HVAC, cleanroom classification and environmental monitoring systems
- Utilities — purified water, WFI, clean steam, compressed gases
- Solid dose, sterile fill-finish, and API equipment qualification
- Process validation across all three lifecycle stages
- Cleaning validation with health-based limits
- Sterilization, depyrogenation and aseptic process simulation support
- Computerized systems: MES, LIMS, eQMS, historians, DCS/SCADA
Sterile and aseptic operations
Sterile manufacturing raises the consequence of every qualification decision. Barrier systems, isolators, RABS, sterilization cycles, container closure integrity and environmental controls all carry qualification scope tightly coupled to contamination control strategy.
Maintaining the validated state
Periodic review, change control, requalification triggers, calibration and preventive maintenance programs are what keep a validated facility validated between projects. Programs that treat validation as a project deliverable rather than an operating discipline tend to accumulate quiet drift.
Primary references
- FDA — Process Validation: General Principles and Practices
- FDA — Computer Software Assurance for Production and Quality System Software
- FDA — 21 CFR Part 11, Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures
- FDA — Data Integrity and Compliance With Drug CGMP
- FDA — General Principles of Software Validation
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