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Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance and Control

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This course is available as a client site course. Please click here for more information.

Who Should Attend
This intensive course will benefit those who need to know how quality can be assured and controlled in the production of pharmaceuticals and related products. The material is particularly suitable for chemists, pharmacists, engineers and administrators working in the following areas:

  • R&D
  • Process Development
  • Analytical Development
  • QA/QC
  • Regulatory Affairs
  • Plant Operations
  • Purchasing
  • Engineering/Maintenance
  • Corporate/Plant Management

The course will also benefit personnel in Regulatory Agencies and suppliers to the industry.

Description
This course provides the basic principles and practices of quality assurance and control (as functions and departments in the pharmaceutical industry) with much of the material applying to the biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, device and cosmetic industries and to suppliers, including API manufacturers. The discussions include the role of quality and the major elements of pharmaceutical quality such as customer, consumer, regulatory & industry viewpoints, the impact of management practices, the features of an effective quality organization, what quality aspects need to be managed throughout the product life cycle – including GMP compliance - and the role of corporate quality. The course discusses current quality issues including company reorganizations, outsourcing, the evolution of FDA approaches, global standards by such organizations as ICH and IPEC and the use of such techniques as risk management, QbD and the Quality System approach. Throughout, an emphasis is placed on the need to achieve quality at optimum cost. The course includes an interactive question/answer session.