Cleaning Validation
Purpose
To establish documented evidence which provides a high degree of assurance that the individual cleaning processes will consistently reduce the impurities to a predefined value which assures that there is no detrimental impact on the product produced or handled within the cleaned equipment.
Prerequisites
- Validation / qualification system (SOPs) should be in place.
- All the equipments, production environment and utilities (HVAC, purified water, compressed air, etc) have been fully qualified.
- Analytical methods have been validated (including Detection Limit and Quantitation Limit).
- Master and batch production instructions are available, up to date and approved.
- Cleaning instructions are available, up to date and approved
- Staff taking part in validation work should have been appropriately trained.
- Discussions with client are required throughout the whole validation process.
Procedures
- Discuss with client about their requirements and collect the required information for quotation (Signing of Secrecy Agreement recommended).
- Prepare an offer (fixed rate difficult, depends on the products, the number of cleaning processes and equipments).
- Sign the contract and project commence.
- Nominate a Validation Team if not set up.
- Prepare a Validation Master Plan (VMP) if not existent or make an update.
- Prepare basic SOPs for cleaning validation if not yet available.
- Perform a risk assessment (FMEA, HACCP or other type) to define the critical cleaning processes and equipments to be validated and the critical parameters and check points (etc) to be monitored.
- Prepare a Project Plan Validation (PPV) if not existent or make an update.
- Prepare Validation Protocols and SOPs for approval by client.
- Train the production staff based on the validation protocol.
- Production staffs in manufacturer perform the Cleaning Validation and generate the cleaning records, analytical results and printouts.
- Discuss the results within the validation team and evaluate all deviations.
- Prepare the Validation Report for approval by client.
- Compile all the relevant documents in the Validation Master File.
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