Good Manufacturing Practices
- Good Manufacturing Processes (GMP) is a system for ensuring that products are consistently produced according to quality standards.
- Good manufacturing practices help a manufacturer better recognize, investigate, and take appropriate planned action to protect the consumer and marketplace from exposure to any potentially harmful ingredients or practices
- GMP is the proactive part of quality assurance. It is designed to minimize the risks involved in all steps of the manufacturing process.
- A basic tenant of GMP is that quality cannot be tested into a product. It must be built into each batch of product during all stages of the manufacturing process.
- GMP covers all aspects of the production process
- Materials
- Premises
- Equipment
- Storage
- Record Keeping
- Staff Training
- Hygiene
- How Complaints Are Handled
- Product Development