The need to validate an analytical or bioanalytical method is encountered by analysts in the pharmaceutical industry on an almost daily basis, because adequately validated methods are a necessity for approvable regulatory filings. What constitutes a validated method, however, is subject to analyst interpretation because there is no universally accepted industry practice for assay validation. This book is intended to serve as a guide to the analyst in terms of the issues and parameters that must be considered in the development and validation of analytical methods. In addition to the critical issues surrounding method validation, this book also deals with other related factors such as method development, data acquisition, automation, cleaning validation and regulatory considerations. The book is divided into three parts. Part One, comprising two chapters, looks at some of the basic concepts of method validation. Chapter 1 discusses the general concept of validation and its role in the process of transferring methods from laboratory to laboratory. Chapter 2 looks at some of the critical parameters included in a validation program and the various statistical treatments given to these parameters. Part Two (Chapters 3, 4 and 5) of the book focuses on the regulatory perspective of analytical validation. Chapter 3 discusses in some detail how validation is treated by various regulatory agencies around the world, including the United States, Canada, the European Community, Australia and Japan. This chapter also discusses the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) treatment of assay validation. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the issues and various perspectives of the recent United States vs. Barr Laboratories Inc. case involving the retesting of samples. Part Three (Chapters 6-12) covers the development and validation of various analytical components of the pharmaceutical product development process. This part of the book contains specific chapters dedicated to bulk drug substances and finished products, dissolution studies, robotics and automated workstations, biotechnology products, biological samples, analytical methods for cleaning procedures and computer systems and computer-aided validation. Each chapter goes into some detail describing the critical development and related validation considerations for each topic. This book is not intended to be a practical description of the analytical validation process, but more of a guide to the critical parameters and considerations that must be attended to in a pharmaceutical development program. Despite the existence of numerous guidelines including the recent attempts by the ICH to be implemented in 1998, the practical part of assay validation will always remain, to a certain extent, a matter of the personal preference of the analyst or company. Nevertheless, this book brings together the perspectives of several experts having extensive experience in different capacities in the pharmaceutical industry in an attempt to bring some consistency to analytical method development and validation.

By:   Christopher M. Riley, Thomas W. Rosanske
Imprint:   Pergamon
Volume:   v. 3
Dimensions:   Height: 22mm,  Width: 234mm,  Spine: 156mm
Weight:   687g
ISBN:  

9780080427928

ISBN 10:   0080427928
Series:   Progress in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   May 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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President of Riley and Rabel Consulting Services. Former Vice President of Analytical R&D at DuPont Pharmaceutical Company, and Vice President of ChemPharm at ALZA (a division of Johnson and Johnson) as well as a member of the ICH Expert Working Group on Impurities. Director of Business Development at Acceleration Laboratory Services, Incorporated. He has previously held scientific and senior management positions at The Upjohn Company, Marion Laboratories, Marion Merrell Dow, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Quintiles, Eli Lilly, Beckloff Associates, and PPD. He currently serves on a Small Molecule USP Expert Committee.

G.P. Carr ...this book contains a great deal of material on applications of analytical methods which should be very valuable to analytical chemists employed within the pharmaceutical industry. Analyst