This new reference source is essential reading for anyone with a responsibility for ensuring the quality of manufactured medicines and other healthcare products.

With the large scale industrial manufacture of medicines has come the potential for serious and widespread hazards. This has dictated the need for a rigorous and highly organised approach to the means of ensuring the quality of manufactured medicines.

As well as giving practical guidance on quality procedures, this book explains the fundamental principles of quality which should underpin the manufacture of medicines and other healthcare products.

This book will be invaluable to all those working in industrial or hospital manufacturing and to those students interested in a career in the pharmaceutical industry.