VALIDATION OF EQUIPMENT IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY – A BRIEF REVIEW

Abstract

The pharmaceutical industry has the great challenge of ensuring the compliance of all its processes throughout the entire activity of its manufacturing plant. To ensure that all these stages of the process have satisfactory results, it is necessary to validate the processes involved in the manufacturing stages.By ensuring compliance with all stages involved in this cycle, the company demonstrates to Brazilian regulatory authorities compliance with the minimum necessary requirements that ensure the quality and effectiveness of its products. Therefore, validation must be well defined and made clear to public regulatory bodies.This article seeks to demonstrate the need to carry out the validation process by pharmaceutical industries in order to fulfill the requirements of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). A brief introduction to the topic of validation is given with an emphasis on equipment qualification in the pharmaceutical industry.