Quality Assurance(QA) plays a vital role in pharmaceutical industry ensuring the product documentation, quality, stability, efficacy and reliability of pharmaceutical products. Quality control department is an integral for ensuring the product compliance the required quality standards by following the regulations and safeguarding the patients’ health. The main purpose of quality assurance is detecting and preventing the issues at an early stage. Quality control is an ongoing process in pharmaceutical industry. The primary focus of quality assurance is to cut costs through maintaining high quality standards, while adhering to relevant regulations and industry norms.
Quality assurance is the main responsible for ensuring all pharmaceutical activities like maintaining
Good manufacturing practice(GMP), Good Laboratory Practice(GLP), and Good Clinical Practice(GCP) and also maintaining documentation and record keeping that includes batch records, maintaining SOPs and any other critical documents regarding the product manufacturing.
Manufacturing pharmaceutical products is a complex process that involves Research and development, pre-formulation and formulation development, procurement and quality control of raw materials, manufacturing, quality control and testing, packaging and labeling, sterilization and distribution and marketing.
Pharmaceutical manufacturing complies physical processes such as blending, compression, filtration, heating, encapsulation, shearing, tableting, granulation, coating, and drying. It also involves in various unit operations, like milling, granulation, coating, and tablet pressing.