QA Flashcards
(109 cards)
Total features or conformance to SPECIFICATIONs of a product
Quality
A list of detailed requirements with which a product has to conform (tests, references of procedures, and
acceptance criteria)
Specifications
Quality is everybody’s business
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Sum total of the organized activities made with the objective of ensuring that products are of quality required for
intended use
Quality Assurance
Part of QA which ensures that products are consistently produced & controlled to quality standards appropriate to intended use
Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP)
PIC/S
Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation Scheme
old cGMP
AO 220 S. 1974
Part of cGMP concerned with sampling. specification, testing, organization, documentation, and release procedures
Quality Control
“If it’s not written, It never happpened.”
Documentation
It is the linkage between written records of action taken and the quality operation
Documentation
Regular periodic quality review of all registered drug products to verify consistency of existing processes and to identify improvement
Product Quality Review
Systematic process for the assessment, control, communication, and review of risks to the quality of the product
Quality Risk Management
Combination of probability of the occurrence of harm and the severity of harm
Risk
Aim to improve its performance by learning about good practices through working at those process in other, better-performing organizations, building on evaluation of relevant performances in own and other organizations
Benchmarking
Portion of a batch
Lot
An organizational unit independent of Production which fulfills both QA and QC responsibilities
Quality Unit
A set of activities that ensures quality in the process by which the products are developed.
Quality Assurance
Specific amount produced in a unit time or according to a single manufacturing order during the same cycle of manufacture, sharing the same production conditions and date
Batch
A set of activities that ensures quality in the product
Quality Control
Aims to prevent defects in the process used to make the products.
Quality Assurance
Aims to identify and control defects in the finished product.
Quality Control
Audit and Monitoring
Quality Assurance
Primary contact with regulatory agency
Quality Assurance
Prepares SOPs
Quality Assurance