Thirty-six years ago as a young Pharmacy post-graduate, I was introduced to the “Continuous Process”. Merck commissioned the plant housing this process in the late 1970’s in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Building on the company’s experience with continuous chemical processing, the plant manufactured a blockbuster (at the time) anti-hypertensive “Aldomet”, Methyldopa Tablets, USP. At […]
The key to developing a practical approach to all phases lies in the establishment of Critical Quality Attributes (CQA) for the drug product and assignment and monitoring of Critical Process Parameters (CPP) that have a direct effect on the performance of the process with regard to the CQA. At the PDA Annual Meeting last week, Scott Bazzone, Senior Manager of Quality Assurance Validation at Pfizer presented the approach that is used there with regards to establishing the risk significance or Z Score of a CPP to the CQA.
