ROLE OF PROCESS VALIDATION IN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

The main purpose of this work is to present the role of process validation in pharmaceutical industry. In pharmaceutical industry validation is one of the important step in achieving and maintaining the quality of final product. Process validation is done in order to know whether the process is producing the final product with its predetermined specifications and acceptance criteria. Quality is the most important requirement in the manufacturing process. All the drugs must be manufactured to the highest quality level. Quality cannot be guaranteed just by the end product testing but we have to control carefully each critical step during the manufacturing process. Thus process validation plays an important role in pharmaceutical industry.