Good Manufacturing Practices
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) are a set of guidelines and standards established to ensure the quality, safety, and consistency of […]
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Good Manufacturing Practices
Good documentation practice (commonly abbreviated GDP, recommended to abbreviate as GDocP to distinguish from “good distribution practice” also abbreviated GDP) is a term in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries to describe standards by which documents are created and maintained. While some GDP / GDocP standards are codified by various competent authorities, others are not but are considered cGMP (with emphasis on the “c”, or “current”). Some competent authorities release or adopt guidelines, and they may include non-codified GDP / GDocP expectations. While not law, authorities will inspect against these guidelines and cGMP expectations in addition to the legal requirements and make comments or observations if departures are seen. In the past years, the application of GDocP is also expanding to cosmetic industry, excipient and ingredient manufacturers.
Contents
1GDP / GDocP standards
1.1Documentation creation
1.2Document approval
1.3Handwritten entries
1.4Copies of documents
1.5Document maintenance
1.6Document modification
2GDP / GDocP interpretation
3Enforcement
4See also
5References
Distribution is an important activity in the integrated supply-chain of medical device.Various people and entities are generally responsible for the product sourcing, procurement, transportation, delivery, storage, device tracking, installation, commissioning, service and maintenance, calibration, need to be appropriately managed and controlled to ensure the safety and performance of medical devices at the point of use.
In some cases, however, a person or entity is only involved in and responsible for certain elements of the distribution process. The level of risks associated with these activities may be of similar degree as those in the manufacturing environment and the lack of control over these activities may affect safety and performance of the devices. The Good Distribution Practice for Medical Devices (GDPMD) is developed to elucidate the requirements for an appropriate management and control of these activities. GDPMD specifies the requirements for a quality management system to be established, implemented and maintained by an establishment in carrying out activities in medical device supply-chain to comply with Malaysian medical device regulatory requirements as stipulated in Medical Device Act 2012 (Act 737). GDPMD requires an establishment to demonstrate its ability to maintain quality, safety and performance of medical devices in compliance with the Malaysian medical device regulatory requirement throughout the supply-chain. It shall be used by both the internal and external parties to determine the ability of an establishment to meet the requirements specified within.
The certification to GDPMD is to be conducted by the registered conformity assessment body. The design and implementation of GDPMD by an establishment is dependent on the types and categories and classification of medical device, size and structure of the establishment, the processes employed it deals with. It is not the intent of the GDPMD to imply uniformity in the structure of the quality management systems or uniformity of documentation. Certification to GDPMD does not imply compliance to any written laws. It is the responsibility of the establishment to ensure that they are in compliance with all applicable laws in Malaysia. In the event of any contradiction between the requirements of GDPMD and any written law, the latter shall take precedence.
BENEFITS OF GDPMD