WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations : forty-fifth report.
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TextSeries: Technical report series (World Health Organization) ; 961.Publication details: Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, c2011.Description: xii, 428 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 9789241209618
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- World Health Organization Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations
- Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations [Spine title]
- Drugs -- Standards -- Congresses
- Drugs -- Specifications -- Congresses
- Drugs -- Quality control -- Congresses
- Pharmacopoeias -- Congresses
- Drug Industry -- standards -- Congresses
- Pharmaceutical Preparations -- standards -- Congresses
- Pharmacopoeias as Topic -- Congresses
- Reference Standards -- Congresses
- Quality Control -- Congresses
- 615.1 22
- RS189 .W4753 2011
- WA16
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The WHO Expert Committee met in Geneva from October 18-22, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- General policy -- Joint session with the Expert Committee on Biological Standardization -- Quality control: specifications and tests -- Quality control: international reference materials (International Chemical Reference Substances and International Infrared Reference Spectra) -- Quality control: national laboratories -- Quality assurance: good manufacturing practices -- Quality assurance: new approaches -- Quality assurance: distribution and trade of pharmaceuticals -- Prequalification of priority essential medicines -- Prequalification of quality control laboratories -- Prequalification of active pharmaceutical ingredients -- Regulatory guidance -- Nomenclature, terminology and databases -- Summary and recommendations -- Annexes.
This report gives recommendations and provides independent international standards and guidelines in the area of quality assurance for implementation by WHO Member States, international organizations, United Nations agencies, regional and interregional harmonization efforts, as well as WHO's medicines' related programs and initiatives.
During the 45th meeting the following new and revised guidelines were adopted and are thus annexed to the report: Procedure for adoption of ICRS (revised), Good Pharmacy Practice (joint FIP/WHO, revised), Guidance for Pharmaceutical Microbiology laboratories (new), Procedure for prequalification of laboratories (revised), WHO guidelines for preparing a laboratory information file, GMP: main principles (revised), GMP for blood establishments (jointly with ECBS), GMP for HVAC (revised), GMP for sterile pharmaceutical products (revised), Guidelines for the preparing a Site Master File (new), Guiding principles on transfer of technology (new), Model guidance for the storage and transport of time and temperature sensitive pharmaceutical products (new, jointly with ECBS), Guidance on submission of documentation for prequalification of innovator FPPS approved by stringent regulatory authorities (new), Procedure for prequalification of medicines (revised), Guideline for the submission of documentation for a multisource (generic) finished product (new) and Special guidance for artemisinin as a starting material for production of antimalarials (subject to confirmation of impurity profile, new).
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