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WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations : fortieth report.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations, Corporate Author.
- Series:
- Technical report series (World Health Organization) ; 937.
- WHO technical report series ; 937
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drugs--Standards--Congresses.
- Drugs.
- Pharmacopoeias--Congresses.
- Pharmacopoeias.
- Drugs--Quality control--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (476 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva : World Health Organization, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This report presents the recommendations of an international group of experts convened by the World Health Organization to consider matters concerning the quality assurance of pharmaceuticals and specifications for drug substances and dosage forms. Annexes include: a list of available international chemical reference substances and international infrared spectra; supplementary guidelines on good manufacturing practices for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems for non-sterile pharmaceutical dosage forms; updated supplementary guidelines on good manufacturing practices for the manufacture of herbal medicines; supplementary guidelines on good manufacturing practices for validation; good distribution practices for pharmaceutical products; a model quality assurance system for procurement agencies (recommendations for quality assurance systems focusing on prequalification of products and manufacturers, purchasing, storage and distribution of pharmaceutical products); multisource (generic) pharmaceutical products: guidelines on registration requirements to establish interchangeability; a proposal to waive in vivo bioequivalence requirements for WHO Model List of Essential Medicines immediate-release, solid oral dosage forms; and additional guidance for organizations performing in vivo bioequivalence studies.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 General Policy
- 3 Quality control specifi cations and tests
- 4 Quality control International Reference Materials
- 5 Quality control national laboratories
- 6 Quality assurance Good Manufacturing Practices
- 7 Quality assurance inspection
- 8 Quality assurance distribution
- 9 Quality assurance risk analysis
- 10 Quality assurance stability
- 11 Prequalifi cation
- 12 Regulatory guidance on interchangeability for multisource generic pharmaceutical products
- 13 Donations of medicines
- 14 Regulatory guidance on post approval changes
- 15 Nomenclature and computerized systems
- 16 Summary and recommendations
- at the next meeting of the Expert Committee
- Acknowledgements
- List of available International Chemical Reference Substances and International Infrared Reference Spectra
- Supplementary guidelines on good manufacturing practices for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems for non-sterile pharmaceutical dosage forms
- Supplementary guidelines on good manufacturing practices for the manufacture of herbal medicines
- Supplementary guidelines on good manufacturing practices validation
- Good distribution practices for pharmaceutical products
- A model quality assurance system for procurement agencies
- Multisource (generic) pharmaceutical products: guidelines on registration requirements to establish interchangeability
- Proposal to waive in vivo bioequivalence requirements for WHO Model List of Essential Medicines immediate-release, solid oral dosage forms
- Additional guidance for organizations performing in vivo bioequivalence studies.
- Notes:
- "WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations, Geneva, 24-28 October 2005"--P. vii.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-50329-7
- 9786610503292
- 1-4237-9020-0
- 92-4-068155-8
- OCLC:
- 70830413
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