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#2 ISPE Schedule L1
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“Schedule L1”GLPs in Drugs &
Cosmetics Rules
Kapil Bhargava
Dy. Drugs Controller (I) retired
Introduction
For GLPs a newly introduced Schedule in
Drugs and Cosmetics Rules
It is applicable since 01.11.2010
Till this introduction, GLPs were not
addressed as a legal requirement (Except
few of the conditions were mentioned for
PTLs in part XV (A) of D & C Rules)
• WHO – GLP is in draft form
• Another WHO draft only on
microbiology labs
• Both above are “guidelines” and not
legal requirement
• Not conforming to GLP may attract
administrative or legal penalty
Introduction
Presentation shall cover
• Salient features of this schedule
• The different provisions those have
been added now
• Difficult to understand requirements
– Their logic
• Clarifications required by / from
regulatory bodies for implementation
of requirements
• Technical manager or Quality Manager
– Current mfg. lic. mention “expert
technical staff for testing”
– Responsible for “all technical activities”
– Implementation of documented quality
systems
– Responsible for technical audit of the
laboratory for GLP compliance by an
expert appointed by the top-management
Personnel
2. Premises
– (a) (i) the laboratories shall be designed,
constructed and maintained so as to
prevent entry of insects and rodents
besides cross contamination
besides cross contamination – Cross contamination in the laboratory is to be avoided
Two different samples cannot be handled by an
analyst and so on..
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HVAC
• (iv) air ventilation system shall ensure
dust free environment
– Installation of HVAC is essential now
– Design of the lab need modification and
the project in-charge or site engineer
must very clearly understand pressure
balancing (more so when fume hood is in
operation)
– Humidity control is also necessary
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Premises / Work Area
• (d) Tabletops shall be constructed with
acid, alkali, and solvent resistant
material and shall be smooth and free
from crevices as far as possible
– In case this is not existing, the table
tops are to be replaced
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Premises
• e) All bio-medical laboratory waste
shall be destroyed as per the
provisions of the Bio-Medical waste
(Management and Handling) Rules,
1996.
Premises
Sterility Test Area
• (g) The air circulation is maintained in
the area where sterility test is carried
out as per Schedule „M‟
– Schedule M does not prescribe air
circulation for testing laboratory,
requirement is for mfg. areas
• (h) Bio-burden shall be routinely
maintained in the controlled and
uncontrolled area. (e.g. air locks)
– It is not good to “maintain” bio-burden
– It is to be controlled
Premises
Animal House:-
• (i) Animal House shall have the
approval of the Committee for the
Purpose of Control and Supervision on
Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA).
Animal House
• (ii) Designed in such a way that there is
an arrangement to quarantine the new
animals procured or purchased and
have a provision for clean corridor and
dirty corridor
– Clean and Dirty corridor -- Very difficult
provision for already existing animal
houses particularly those attached to
small size mfg. units
Personnel
• (c) Head of the laboratory must be of
high professional standing with
experience in drug analysis and
laboratory managements who is
responsible for…. :
– high professional standing!!
Personnel
• (iv) taking final responsibilities for
recommending any regulatory action
in the event of non-compliance of
tested samples
– Head of the laboratory is now expected to
recommend to management the
regulatory action to be taken for non
compliances !!
Equipment
• (f) A progress register for non-
functional equipments and action for
procurement of spares and
accessories, monitoring thereof, shall
be maintained.
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Equipment
• (g) A Standard Operating Procedure
for preventive maintenance of machine
or equipment or apparatus shall be
prepared by the laboratory
– A matrix and compliance to this schedule
– Demonstration to this compliance
Equipment
• (h) Other equipment such as burettes,
pipettes, volumetric flasks, weight
boxes, thermometers, etc., shall be
thoroughly checked for calibration
before acceptance for use
– Laboratory Glassware are termed as
“equipment”
– It is to be decided if supplier‟s certificate
will be accepted or not
Equipment
• (i) Maintenance procedure in the form
of Standard Operating Procedures
must be prepared and regular
servicing must be performed by the
maintenance engineer or specialist
– Requirement of a maintenance engineer is
now essential
Equipment
• (l) Autoclaves must meet the
requirements described for
operations, safety and validation
procedures, and the validation carried
out by the laboratory shall be recorded
Reagents
(d) Containers of stock solutions and
of standard shall bear the following
details-(i)
(ii)
(iii) “use before date” depending upon
the stability of the solution; and
(iv) standardization records - It is very
difficult to mention standardization
records on stock solution containers !
Good house keeping and
safety
• (iv) the laboratories shall have
adequate first aid kit and fire fighting
equipments located at the right places
and the staff must be familiar and
trained with the use of fire fighting
equipment including fire extinguishers,
fire blankets and gas masks.
– fire blankets and gas masks are essential
now
Reference Materials
• 8 (a) Reference materials are
necessary for the testing and, or
calibration, validation or verification of
a sample or of equipment, instruments
or other devices and all such materials
shall be traceable to agency
authorized by Government of India or
any other International body
– Difficult to comply!
RS/WRS & Secondary
Std.
• Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
for the maintenance of reference standards and evaluation of Working and Secondary standards…
– Ref. Subs. (Official)
– Ref. Subs.
– Secondary Ref. Substances
– Working Standards
Working Standards
• (b) The laboratory shall prepare
working standard by comparing with
the reference standards and shall be routinely checked for their purity by
selecting parameters such as identity,
loss on drying or on water, impurity
and assay, etc.
– Difficult to comply!
Reference Material
• (c) Wherever, any new reference
material is received by the laboratory,
a code number shall be assigned and
this code number shall be quoted on
the laboratory note book and analytical
work sheet.
• The working standard shall also be
provided with identification code.
– purpose of this requirement is unclear
Working Standards • (e) All working standards shall be
checked at appropriate intervals or
before use to ensure that it has not
deteriorated or decomposed during
storage.
– Checking deterioration or decomposition
frequently or prior to use is very difficult
and also time consuming . It may not serve
the intended purpose .
– This may be OK for PTLs or Government
Laboratories
Microbiology Cultures
• (b) if the cultures have become non-
viable or mutant, proper procedure
shall be followed to destroy these
cultures by autoclaving under an
authorized personnel for biological
testing. Preferably not more than five passages may be prepared.
– This is to be more scientific – Checking
culture purity is to be emphasised
• (d) The laboratories shall perform
standard biochemical tests on the sub-
culture as given in literature to ensure
their viability.
– Biochemical tests are time consuming and
rather tough to be performed on each
subculture
Microbiology Cultures
• Practically it is not feasible to perform the
biochemical tests prior to use of every culture
• Alternatively whenever a new vial of Working Seed
is used to prepare fresh slants for routine use, the
purity and characteristics of the microbial culture
shall be confirmed by microscopical and
biochemical examination
• These slants thereafter can be used for routine
tests for a period of 1 month restricting the passage
up-to not more than five
Microbiology Culture
Microbiology Work
• (c) All activities be carried out in a
aseptic area by authorized person.
– Now aseptic area is needed for all
microbiological work – In existing
laboratories Aseptic area is difficult to
create (or upgrade)
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Microbiology Work
• (d) The laboratories shall perform
standard biochemical tests on the sub-
culture as given in literature to ensure
their viability
– Each sub culturing all biochemical tests
are expected to be carried out
– Viability can be tested by other means too
– This provision is more suited for
preparative work
Quality system
• The quality system shall be designed
to ensure the following objectives:-
– (a) the measurements and calibrations
shall fully conform to the compendial
requirements and methods demonstrably
based on validation protocols are followed
• Method Validation for all the analytical
methods is compulsory now!!
• No references in IP or Drug Rules are
available
Internal quality system
audits
• (a) Internal audits are done…. to comply with requirements of regulatory authorities.– Some Check-list from Govt. is needed
Internal audits shall be carried out by trained and qualified personnel who are independent of the activity to be audited
In smaller labs this too is difficult for compliance
SOPs for:
(i) sample handling and accountability;(ii) receipt identification, storage mixing and method sampling of the test and control articles;(iii) record keeping, reporting, storage and retrieval of data;(iv) coding of different studies, handling of data including use of computerized data system;
SOPs for:
(v) operation of technical audit personnel in performing and reporting audits, inspections and final report reviews;(vi) routine inspection of cleaning, maintenance, testing, calibration and standardization of instruments;(vii) action to be taken in respect of equipments failure;(viii) analytical data methods;(ix) the raw data;(x) data handling and storage retrieval
SOPs for:
(xi) (xii)(xiii)(xiv)(xv) maintenance of sterility room (i.e. constant maintenance and monitoring of Aseptic condition of sterility room)(xvi)(xvii)(xviii) monitoring of testing of samples – I have not understood this SOP(xix) methods of retention of unexpended samples, their location, maintenance and disposal – easy to write SOP but difficult to comply
(xx) document control
SOPs for:
(xxi) redressal of technical
complaints;
(xxii) housing-keeping
(xiii) corrective and preventive action;
(xxiv) working procedure (test
methods);
(xxv) calibration Manual; and
(xxvi) training manual.
Protocols Archives
• (b) All updates and corrections must
be noted in the master volumes of
Pharmacopoeias to prevent the use of
obsolete sections; supplement and
addendum shall also be made
available in the laboratory.
• (c) The specification archive shall
contain the following:-
Protocols Archives
(i)(ii) a file on patent and proprietary medicines (non- pharmacopoeial) test methods to specifications prepared and validated by the manufacturer or by the laboratory itself.
The test methods shall be submitted to the concerned Drugs Control Authority.
The validated test methods developed by the manufacturer or the laboratory shall stand to the requirements of compendial parameters in regards to its precision, accuracy, reproducibility, specificity, linearity, and ruggedness etc.
Storage and archival
• (a) The residual sample shall be
retained in proper storage condition
for a period of one year after the finial
report.
Storage and archival
• (b) The laboratory must establish and
maintain procedures for the
identification collection, indexing,
retrieval, storage, maintenance, and
disposal of all quality documents.
Storage and archival
• c. The archive shall provide a suitable
environment that will prevent
modification, damage, or deterioration
and/ or loss
Storage and archival
• (e) Paper documents shall not be kept
for long periods under high humidity
and raw data in the form to tape and
discs are to be preserved with care
• (f) In case of storage of only optical
disc, the life of disc shall be longer
than the storage time
Storage and archival
• (g) Raw data on thermal paper might
fade away with time; therefore, a
photocopy of the thermal paper shall
also be retained in the archive.
• (h) Time for which records are
retained shall be prescribed in the
documents.”
Summarizing
– Provisions in Schedule L1 are legal
requirement and are to be complied with
strictly
– Clarifications for provisions which are
rather ambiguous may be sought for from
regulatory authorities
– Few actions for compliance are also
expected from regulatory authorities.
My references were•Schedule L1, Schedule M, WHO TRS and other WHO documentsAcknowledgements •Support from Mr. R Raghunandanan, my colleagues, ex colleagues and professional in the industry
26th Feb. 11 [email protected]
26th Feb. 11 [email protected]