We ensure the quality of your drugs and APIs with GMP compliance support
The quality, safety and efficacy of medicinal products are paramount to guarantee the healthcare of patients.
The quality, safety and efficacy of medicinal products are paramount to guarantee the healthcare of patients.
Hence, the European Commission has defined quality standards for production processes and environments of medicinal products and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) in the EU GMP Guidelines. The latter aim to ensure that medicinal products meet these high standards and comply with the requirements specified in standardized marketing authorizations throughout Europe.
The EU GMP guidelines require that manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, active ingredients, and excipients must set-up a GMP-compliant quality management system. Manufacturers must cover all quality-relevant areas and all quality assurance measures. Quality requirements not only apply to production processes. They include all areas and measures of the company that have impact on the quality of the pharmaceuticals. In addition to general quality management principles, several further areas must be controlled to ensure GMP compliance, i.e. personnel, premises, equipment, documentation, quality control, contract manufacturing, testing, complaints, product recalls, and self-inspection.
All companies worldwide must comply with GMP requirements in order to obtain a manufacturing authorization (GMP certificate) for medicinal products or active pharmaceutical ingredients. In Germany, for example, the “Arzneimittel- und Wirkstoffherstellungsverordnung"(AMWHV) governs the application of Good Manufacturing Practice and refers to the much more comprehensive European regulations.
Many people and functions are responsible for GMP compliance: in addition to management, which is responsible for the implementation of the pharmaceutical quality system (PQS) and the availability of the necessary resources, management functions like Qualified Person (QP), Head of Manufacturing (LdH), Head of Quality Control (LdQC) and Quality Management Representative (QMB) as well as the executing employees of the plant, suppliers, and distributors must all have the necessary GMP knowledge and renew it regularly. Official inspectors check whether companies produce in GMP compliance and can obtain, maintain, or extend their manufacturing authorization. The corresponding GMP certificate is issued after each successful inspection. The regular interval is every three years.
Our senior consultants offer expertise to prepare you for inspections and our objective external compliance check for setting up or expanding your company or market potential.
Valicare’s lead consultants have many years of experience in the implementation of GMP projects and know exactly how to handle quality assurance tools.
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Valicare is an ISO 9001-certified service company and operates in the area of qualification and validation of technical equipment and processes.