The ISPE GAMP® RDI Good Practice Guide: Data Integrity – Manufacturing Records provides practical and pragmatic advice on areas such as regulated records, data flows, and risk management approaches, with particular focus on process control systems, manufacturing execution systems, and the interfaces and relationship between them. Additionally, system-specific examples of topics such as segregation of duties and critical validation activities to support data integrity are discussed.

The shift in process validation from a one-time event to the product lifecycle approach expected by most global markets has led to significant changes in validation practices. The science and risk-based approach combines product development knowledge with a structured process performance and product quality monitoring system to provide for validation throughout the product lifecycle.

Transfer of manufacturing processes and analytical procedures between facilities or laboratories is a necessary part of pharmaceutical development and commercialization. Technology transfers take the outputs of process or method development activities and transfer the knowledge to a different location where a process or analytical procedure will be operated.