Saturday 14 September 2013

SOP FOR ANNUAL PRODUCT REVIEW



I.                   PURPOSE

To define a procedure to perform Annual Product Review of finished APIs and Intermediates.

II.                SCOPE

The SOP is applicable for all finished APIs and Intermediates manufactured in, Unit – V.

III.             RESPONSIBILITY

Head – Production
Head – QC
Executive – QA, Head - QA

IV.             ACCOUNTABILITY

Head - QA

V.                PROCEDURE

1.0               Annual product review shall be carried out for each product manufactured in the previous calendar year.
2.0               Annual Product Review report should be completed by the month of January.
3.0               Implementation of preceding year’s recommendations should be reviewed along with Annual product review.
4.0               Annual product review should essentially include the following steps
4.1               Trend analysis of the following parameters shall be compiled product wise and batch wise.
4.1.1         pH
4.1.2         Water Content
4.1.3         Assay
4.1.4         Impurities
4.1.5         Sterility, Endotoxin, and Pyrogen test  (incase of Sterile products)
4.1.6         Market complaint, investigations and planned corrective action.
4.1.7         Review of critical in-process controls and key API test results.
4.1.8         Review of all batches that failed to meet established specifications and related investigation.
4.1.9         Review of any changes carried out to the process, system or analytical methods.
4.1.10     Review of results of the stability-monitoring program.
4.1.11     Review of Product Recalls and corrective actions taken.
4.1.12     Review of Disqualified vendors for raw material / packing material.
4.1.13     Reprocessing and rework batches review, if any.
4.1.14     Review of revalidated process.
4.2               Quality Assurance shall prepare the Annual Product review document and sends the document to production for checking.
4.3               Head production shall check the document for its correctness.
4.4               Head QA shall approve the Annual product review document.
4.5               Head QA shall mention the recommendations (if any) in the report.
4.6               Annual product review records shall be maintained in QA department.





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