The End of Process Validation As We Know It?

In 1987, when the US Food and Drug Administration issued its Guideline on General Principles of Process Validation, a young FDA reviewer asked her supervisors, "What does this term validation really mean?"

"We don't know," they responded.

Much has changed in the past 18 years. So much has changed, in fact, that the current concept of process validation, once a fresh idea in quality control, and which later became accepted dogma, may now be ready for the trash bin. With companies achieving new levels of process understanding, what does it mean to validate a manufacturing process? Industry leaders and FDA are now examining that question and looking at new models to follow.

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Author(s):

Laura Bush

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Pharmaceutical Technology, Aug 2, 2005