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Course description

Key Learning Objectives

Completion of this sterile products training course will enable you to:

• Describe a typical sterile production process and the facility, equipment and utilities associated with sterile product manufacture
• Know what aspects require detailed definition, validation and ongoing monitoring
• Know the typical failure modes and how to determine most probable root cause and mitigation strategies
• Understand how the key attributes of a sterile product impact:
• The pharmaceutical quality system
• The organization
• The management oversight process
• Risk management and mitigation
• The end user or patient

We want you to learn, be engaged and have fun as well as take away practical knowledge that is immediately useful back in the workplace. Carefully designed case studies, teamwork tasks and problem-solving exercises (facilitated by highly experienced course tutors) ensure that you learn by doing.

Course Outline

Regulatory Standards for Sterile Products
Creating the Controlled Environment
The Design, Validation, Operation and Maintenance of:

• Cleanrooms
• Isolators and restricted access barrier systems (RABS)
• Sterile preparation and formulation
• Steam
• Water (from bore hole to water for injection)

Aseptic and Terminal Sterilization (TS) Production Methods
Environmental Monitoring (The What, Why and How)
Routine Disinfection (A Quality Critical Activity)
Critical Utilities
Sterilization Processes: Everything You Need to Know

• Moist heat (autoclaves)
• Dry heat (ovens and tunnels)
• Filtration
• Irradiation
• Vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) surface sanitization

Process Simulations (Media Fills): The What, Why, How and What If

• Regulatory requirements
• How to design media fills “fit for purpose”
• Best industry practice
• What to do when they fail

Container Integrity and Particulate Inspection

• How to validate and test
• How to manage failures (from root cause investigation to corrective and preventive action (CAPA) implementation)

People Issues

• How to select, educate and manage cleanroom staff
• Gowning and good aseptic practices
• How to motivate, lead by example and understand, promote and enforce good aseptic behaviors

Problem Solving and Troubleshooting (Dealing With the Unplanned)

• What to do when things go wrong

Pre-requisites

For any queries regarding entry requirements for both QP training and/or postgraduate qualifications please contact QPpharma@nsf.org

Additional info

NSF delivers instructor-led QP courses with blended training methods, in a mix of virtual and in-person courses. Please visit www.nsf.org/training for current dates. If you cannot see your delivery method of choice, please contact QPpharma@nsf.org

Training provider

NSF

Email

qppharma@nsf.org

Tel

01751 434 807