title: Validation study on how to avoid microbial contamination during pharmaceutical production.
abstract: Every person involved in pharmaceutical product manufacturing has the responsibility to assure the quality of the product being produced. The aim of this paper is to validate quality assurance throughout the process of manufacturing pharmaceutical products. Additionally, within aseptic manufacturing, certain monitoring and information needs to be collected on a routine basis to continually assess the state of control of the complete operation. The basis for assessing the state of control is to have rigorous and defined information flow processes. Once the information is collected, quality assurance involves the ability to assess, evaluate, and make appropriate decisions to ensure the product has the required safety, identity, strength, quality, and purity. Quality assurance study is the process of bringing all of the information together, evaluating the information, making decisions, refining systems, and applying process knowledge. This process begins in the early stages of drug development when not a lot of specific process information about the process is known, but it is important to allow for development to progress, building knowledge about process. However, even in early development, sterility assurance requirements should be largely the same at all stages of development and routine commercial manufacturing.
authors.forename: Hideharu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shintani
mesh_terms: D004340:Drug Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011786:Quality Control; D013678:Technology, Pharmaceutical / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards