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SOP Templates
Just Published - These SOP Templates are designed to help organizations document, implement, and maintain quality processes that meet global standards such as FDA, EMA, ICH, and WHO. Whether establishing a new Quality Management Systems (QMS) or refining an existing one, these templates provide a structured, audit-ready format to ensure quality procedures are clear, consistent, and compliant.
GAMP Guide: Artificial Intelligence
Recently Published - This Guide provides a holistic view on developing and using AI in GxP areas effectively, while safeguarding patient safety, product quality, and data integrity. It aims to support alignment among diverse stakeholders to seize benefits of quickly advancing technology by overcoming challenges in the management of the AI-enabled system life cycle.
Good Practice Guide: Validation 4.0
Recently Published - As pharmaceutical manufacturing evolves, Validation 4.0 ensures that validation processes are not a bottleneck but a strategic enabler of innovation, quality, and compliance by embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and digital twins. This approach involves integrating Quality by Design (QbD), Quality Risk Management (QRM), and digital technologies to create a Holistic Control Strategy (HCS) that spans the entire product lifecycle. This Guide builds on the concepts as discussed in the ISPE Baseline® Guide: Pharma 4.0™ by providing an overview of the objective of validation in the pharmaceutical industry and moves into a holistic view of demonstrating control through digitization and digitalization and doing so in a continuous cycle.
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GAMP Guides and Good Practice Guides.
GAMP® guidance aims to safeguard patient safety, product quality, and data integrity in the use of GxP computerized systems. It aims to achieve computerized systems that are fit for intended use and meet current regulatory requirements by building upon existing industry good practice in an efficient and effective manner. GAMP® adopts a patient-centric risk-based approach that enables innovation while demonstrating compliance with regulatory requirements.
Good Practice Guides
Reflecting current regulatory expectations and best practices, Good Practice Guides (GPGs) help to narrow interpretation of regulatory standards for improved compliance and quality, efficiency, and cost reductions. They typically focus on the “how”.
Baseline® Guides
Created with input from various global regulatory agencies, Baseline® Guides are intended to establish a compliant minimum acceptable (baseline) approach to the topic area. They typically focus on the “what”.
Guides
Guides offer practical advice on regulatory initiatives by providing effective, cost-efficient approaches and encouraging innovation and technological advances while achieving regulatory compliance. They typically focus on the “what”, but may also provide some information on implementation.
APQ
The APQ Guides series proves a set of tool and systematic approaches – the Assess, Aspire, Act, and Advance Framework – for organizations to advance the maturity and effectiveness of these PQS elements.
PQLI
ISPE’s Product Quality Lifecycle Implementation (PQLI)® initiative was created to provide guidance on practical implementation of the concepts described in ICH guidelines, focusing on ICH Q8, Q9, Q10, Q11 and Q12 to help ensure product quality throughout a product lifecycle, leading to continuous product improvement. The original project produced the ISPE PQLI® Guide Series.
SOP Templates
These SOP Templates are designed to help organizations document, implement, and maintain quality processes that meet global standards such as FDA, EMA, ICH, and WHO. Whether establishing a new Quality Management Systems (QMS) or refining an existing one, these templates provide a structured, audit-ready format to ensure quality procedures are clear, consistent, and compliant.
Handbooks
Handbooks provide a comprehensive ready reference, with concise information on a particular topic, occupation, or process. They are structured to give quick answers in specific topic areas.
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