Product Quality Lifecycle Implementation® (PQLI®) is ISPE’s Global
Industry Initiative for a practical approach to implementation of International Conference on Harmonization
(ICH) guidances Q8 (R2), Pharmaceutical Development; Q9, Quality Risk Management; Q10, Pharmaceutical Quality
System; and Q11, Development and Manufacture of Drug Substances.
What is PQLI?
The Product Quality Lifecycle Implementation (PQLI) initiative resulted from the need to help industry
find global solutions to implementation challenges of ICH guidances.
How will PQLI help me?
PQLI ...
- Describes practical application of new ICH quality guidances that underwrite the ICH quality vision
- Is about the many ‘hows’ relating to the ‘what’ of ICH guidances
- Demonstrates there are many right ways, not just one way, to successfully implement ICH guidances in a
global environment and throughout the lifecycle of a product
- Focuses on science- and risk-based approaches to product realization and manufacture
- Welcomes contributions from all scientists, engineers, regulators, and industry leaders committed to
supporting these principles
What does PQLI do?
Results are immediate, practical, and applicable. PQLI products are targeted at a wide spectrum of
multi-disciplinary professional levels representing all stages of the lifecycle.
PQLI is building a set of resources useful to a broad spectrum of companies:
- Small, medium, and large innovators, generics
- Chemical and biotech, substance and product
- Global and regionally-based
ISPE welcomes input from all parties, yet its work products will not replicate activities underway by
industry. For example please see information relating to our relationship with PDA and their Paradigm Change in Manufacturing Operations (PCMO™)
program.
What has PQLI Delivered?
Product Quality Lifecycle Implementation® (PQLI®) Good Practice Guides (GPGs)
provide information on global solutions to implementation challenges of ICH guidances.
Classroom Training
Supporting Case Studies and Documents
PQLI Good Practice Guides reference other case studies and relevant documents in the public domain. Many
thanks must be extended to the teams which produced these documents, names and company affiliations of
members of these teams being available from the documents.
Curious about PQLI? View the “PQLI 101” Webinar - FREE to ISPE Members!
Learn about this important initiative. A webinar about the basics of PQLI is available on demand - free to
ISPE Members, US$49.00 for non members.
To contribute, learn more, reach a member of the PQLI team, or get involved with PQLI, please email us at
pqli@ispe.org.
Last Update: 29 January 2013