Good Practice Guides

Published: December 2024 Pages: 122 Table of Contents Special Pricing for Emerging Economies This Guide was originally titled ISPE Good Practice Guide: Assessing the Particulate Containment Performance of Pharmaceutical Equipment. As in previous

Published: April 2025 Pages: 90 Table of Contents Special Pricing for Emerging Economies This Guide considers how increased adoption of Digital Validation Tools (DVTs) in the life sciences industry can support a growing commitment to data integrity

Published: October 2024 Pages: 156 Table of Contents Special Pricing for Emerging Economies This updated Guide offers comprehensive guidance on designing and operating pharmaceutical water storage and distribution systems that utilize ozone for

Published: September 2024 Pages: 272 Table of Contents Special Pricing for Emerging Economies Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems can critically affect the ability of a pharmaceutical facility to meet its objective of providing

Published: May 2024 Pages: 86 Table of Contents Special Pricing for Emerging Economies Many current challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry revolve around increasing product complexity, reduced batch sizes, and higher flexibility requirements

The ISPE Good Practice Guide: Process Gases, Second Edition presents recent advances in construction materials and updates on current good practices. This edition is aligned with the latest regulatory guidance, including EU Annex 1 (revised 2022), EU Annex 15, the FDA Guidance for Industry: Sterile Drug Products Produced by Aseptic Processing — Current Good Manufacturing Practice, and the FDA draft Guidance for Industry: Current Good Manufacturing Practice for Medical Gases.

The goal of the ISPE Good Practice Guide: Critical Utilities GMP Compliance – How to Be Compliant and Ready to Prove It is to help pharmaceutical organizations achieve and maintain their critical utility systems in a state of control, and then be able to efficiently demonstrate their systems’ Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) compliance to regulatory inspectors and auditors.

The ISPE Good Practice Guide: Good Engineering Practice (Second Edition) defines the practices and processes under GEP that support and enable the design, delivery, and operation of engineered systems. The scope of GEP covers the complete lifecycle of engineering projects and engineered systems from conceptual design to retirement. This Guide considers the entire range of pharmaceutical engineering activity and identifies key attributes of GEP within it, including how GEP relates to and interfaces with GxP.

ICH Q10 outlines three objectives: achieve product realization, establish and maintain a state of control, and facilitate continual improvement. Embracing these objectives can be best achieved using the dual enablers, Knowledge Management (KM) and Quality Risk Management (QRM).

For the purposes of this Guide, operations are defined as the transformative process within a series of activities, along a value chain extending from supplier to customer. Operations Management designs, operates, and improves supply chain systems for getting work done. The ISPE Good Practice Guide: Operations Management aims to provide the pharmaceutical industry with a knowledge base to promote the use of best practices and operational excellence within pharmaceutical operations management.