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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

By Kaira G. Tafoya


Validation is a systematic approach to gathering and analyzing sufficient data which will give reasonable assurance (documented evidence), based upon scientific judgment, that a process, when operating within specified parameters, will consistently produce results within predetermined specifications. It is an action of proving, in accordance with the principles of good manufacturing practice, that any procedure, process, equipment, material, activity, or system actually leads to the expected result. It is a documented evidence which provides a high degree of assurance that a specific process will consistently produce a product meeting its predetermined specifications and quality attributes and characteristics. It is used as obtaining and documenting evidence to demonstrate that a method can be relied upon to produce the intended result within defined limits.

Important requirements of method validation have been mentioned in the succeeding paragraph. Method validation is is an action to verify that any process, procedure, activity, material, system, or equipment used in manufacture or control can, will, and does achieve the desired and intended results, therefore, even a modified approach can be adopted with meticulous measures.

Precision is the measure of the degree of repeat ability of an analytical method under normal operation and is normally expressed as the percent relative standard deviation for a statistically significant number of samples. The two most common precision measures are 'repeat-ability' and 'reproducibility'. These are expression of two extreme measure of precision which can be obtained. Repeatability (the smallest expected precision) will give an idea of the sort of variability to be expected when a method is performed by a single analyst on one piece of equipment over a short time scale. If a sample is analyzed by a number of laboratories for comparative purposes then a more meaningful precision measure to use is reproducibility (this is the largest measure of precision). In practice the laboratory is usually interested in the extent of variability which occurs over time when it operates the method. This is called 'intermediate precision' and describes the variability when the method is deployed in the same laboratory, perhaps on different pieces of equipment, and using different analysts on the staff. It is expected that this will give a value between repeatability and reproducibility.

There are a few vital components of Validation shirking of capital consumptions, less grievances about procedure related disappointments, decreased testing in-procedure and in completed products, more quick and solid start-up of new gear, Increased throughput, lessening in dismissals and adjusting, diminishment in utility expenses, less demanding scale-up from advancement work, less demanding support of hardware, enhanced worker familiarity with procedures and more fast mechanization.

A group of experts would have developed standard methods collaboratively. In theory this development should include consideration of all of the necessary aspects of validation. However, the responsibility remains with the user to ensure that the validation documentation is complete to the needs. Even if the validation is complete, user has to ensure that it establishes that the method is fit for the purpose intended for the method.




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