Thursday, October 23, 2008

Risk-Based Cleaning Validation in Biopharmaceutical API Manufacturing

Cleaning validation (CV) is driven by regulatory expectations to ensure that residues from one product will not carry over and cross contaminate the next product.1,2 Regulatory scrutiny is more rigorous in a multiproduct facility compared to a single product establishment. Companies are usually cited either for not having a sound cleaning validation or not meeting the protocol acceptance criteria. Because failing a protocol acceptance criteria is considered a substantial regulatory risk, companies are forced to spend money and resources even though there is minimal or no product risk.

Author(s):
Hamid Mollah, Ph.D , Edward K. White
Journal:
BioPharm International, November 2005

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