Tuesday 4 October 2016

How Hiring A GMP Compliance Consultant Can Help Companies

By Richard Walker


Before a manufactured product hits the shelves, there is a set of tests and expert reviews it has to go through to be considered safe. This process is done according to standards approved by authorities in the FDA and similar administrations. These standards can vary depending on location. The grounds at which a product can pass are not lenient.

There are many aspects of merchandise production that needs to be inspected by the legal authorities. What the Good Manufacturing Practice, or GMP compliance consultants does is to make sure that the clients pass these reviews from the authorities so that they can continue their manufacturing. Determining the errors and possible risks for these projects cover both the manufacturing process and the merchandise being made.

Most production and pharmaceutical companies do not have internal staff to do the mandatory systematized testing. It would not make sense if the people who made the merchandise would also be the ones to give feedback about its compliance to what the FDA requires. That would be too self serving.

Without these testing procedures, commodities may be placed under legal action that would have them pay a fine for violation or negligence, force the stop of manufacturing the non standard conforming product and at worst get jailed. Again, this is to ensure safety of both the manufacturers and consumers. This is especially important for large scale projects that involve many complex processes.

One of the most common industries that hire these consultants are in pharmaceuticals. It makes good sense since they produce a line of very complicated products dealing with chemicals and complex processes that may cause fatal side effects if not properly reviewed and regulated. Other industries that seek this service include quality control industries, engineering, solids productions and biotechnical production.

Regulatory compliance classifies a merchandise under three classifications cosmetic, drug or NHP. There is a need to know the classification of these commodities before they can be shipped. Consultation services charge a reasonable flat fee for a package of reviews. They assist their clients with the reviews start from basic compliance review on the formulation of the product up to the pre launching stages of the product.

Most agencies take any project regardless of scale. Professionals with significant experience, with regards to the industry the client is in, handle the consultation. The whole process is a more in depth and industry specific version of project management. These consultants provide solutions that fit according to the possible discrepancies a system or a project may have while keeping FDA standards in mind.

The nature of the industries that hire compliance assistance requires these services to have a wide array of experts in different fields. The assurance of compliance can only be provided if the third party representatives that provide the consultation only experts can be qualified to give. This is because their service also includes drafting plans and systems to make the already existing manufacturing system better.

They use trademark systems that assure the efficient use of resources, proper control of on going activities and usher improvement on existing systems. More than anything the goal of these experts is to help the client make the most out of their business through the proper regulation of standards set up by law. After the process of classification, mock inspections and everything in between, whatever commodity is being manufactured will be ready for distribution.




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