- Impurity and stability studies: Definition, classification of impurities in drug Substance or Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and quantification of impurities as per ICH guidelines.
- Impurities in new drug products: Rationale for the reporting and control of degradation products, reporting degradation products content of batches, listing of degradation products in specifications, qualification of degradation products
- Impurities in residual solvents: General principles, classification of residual solvents, Analytical Procedures, limits of residual solvents, reporting levels of residual solvents
- Concepts of Quality Assurance, Total Quality Management, Philosophy of GMP and cGMP
- Guidelines for Quality Assurance of Human Blood Products and large volume parenterals.
- Organization and personnel, responsibilities, training hygiene
- Premises: Location, design, plan Layout, construction, maintenance and sanitations, environmental control, sterile areas, control of contamination.
- Equipments: Selection, purchase specifications, maintenance, clean in place, sterilize in place – Raw – materials: Purchase specifications, maintenance of stores, selection of vendors, controls and raw materials.
- Packaging and labeling controls, line clearance and other packaging materials.
- Quality Control Laboratory: Responsibilities, good laboratory practices, routine controls, instruments, protocols, non-clinical testing, controls on animal house, data generation, and storage.
- Manufacturing documents, Master Formula, Batch Formula, Records, Standard Operating Procedures,
- In process quality control on various dosage forms sterile and biological products, standard operating procedures for various operations like cleaning, filling drying, compression, coating, disinfection, sterilization, membrane filtration etc.
- The International Pharmacopoeia Vol 1,2,3,4, 3rd edition General Methods of Analysis Quality Specifications for Pharmaceutical Substances, Excipients, Dosage Forms.
- Quality Assurance of Pharmaceuticals. A Compendium of Guidelines and Related Material Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, WHO 2007)
- GMP by Mehra
- Pharmaceutical Process Validation by Berry and Nash
- How to Practice GMP’s – P.P. Sharma
- Basic Tests for Pharmaceutical Substances – WHO (1991)
- The Drugs and Cosmetic Act 1940 by Vijay Malik
- Q.A. Manual by D.H. Shah
- SOP Guidelines by D.H. Shah
- Quality Assurance Guide by OPPI
- Good Manufacturing-Practices for Pharmaceuticals, by Graham Bunn and Joseph 6th Ed. D. Nally (Dec 26, 2006)
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