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Stefanie Lebon
Routine interventions include charging stopper and seal hoppers, removing jammed stoppers or toppled vials, taking environmental monitoring samples (settle plates, active air samples, and contact plates), and checking in-process control samples (e.g., manual weight checks). Routine interventions should be performed as described in the production standard operating procedure (SOP) or the batch record or environmental monitoring SOP. Procedures to be followed in the event of machine jams and spills may include partial line clearances, including removal of exposed units.
Nonroutine interventions may include changing the filling nozzles or handling unexpected events, such as breakdown maintenance, line stoppages, machine adjustments, and material transfers. Interventions can also be grouped by access point, and their risk assessed so that worst-case (highest risk) interventions are included in the study.
After filling, stoppering, and sealing, 100% visual inspection is performed for defects such as the presence of visible foreign matter, high or low fill volumes, and damaged vials, stoppers, or seals. Such defective units would be normally removed (rejected) from product batches, but in the case of APS batches, such defective integral units must be retained and all such containers must be incubated. If filled containers are broken or otherwise damaged so that they are nonintegral and potentially contaminated, they must be recorded and reconciled with the batch record quantities. All appropriate media fill container units must be incubated.
The methods used for environmental monitoring are stated in China GMP3 and EudraLex, current Annex 1:6 active air sampling (1 m3 sample volume) onto 90 mm agar plates; settling plates 90 mm in diameter, with exposure up to 4 hours (if the APS or production filling lasts longer, new settling plates must be exposed for each subsequent 4-hour period); surface contact plates 55 mm in diameter (in which the plates are contacted against machine surfaces or cleanroom walls, floors, or operator gowns); gloved-finger samples performed by cleanroom operators during the filling period and upon leaving the cleanroom, taken by contacting four fingers and thumb onto the surface of a 90 mm tryptone soya agar (TSA) settle plate.
A key step in the investigation is identifying microorganism(s) species in positive media vials and any colonies appearing on environmental monitoring plates, particularly those from the Grade A/B environments, including from RABS/isolator monitoring. Identification of species from colonies on plates exposed in the lower-grade adjacent cleanrooms, through which materials or personnel have accessed the filling rooms, may also be crucial.
MycoScience is an ISO 13485 certified contract manufacturing organization specializing in syringe & vial filling of gels and highly viscous materials for medical device and pharmaceutical applications. We also perform a variety of regulatory testing services with expertise in getting challengeing products to clinical trial stage as soon as possible.
The robustness of the container closure integrity (CCI) in cryogenic temperatures is validated and holistically covered by the vial materials and design, its manufacturing process, and the closed vial filling process.
Together with our partner IMA, PPS supplies several different solutions for liquid filling, including sterile liquids. The technology behind is suitable for cosmetic products, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and other food supplements. We offer the best suitable solution for filling liquids into ampoules, bottles, vials, syringes, capsules, or tubes. The liquid filling equipment can be integrated into different packaging lines or other integrated solutions. Thereby you will benefit from the synergetic effects of integrating the entire packaging line.
Moreover, PPS supplies various high-performance solutions for washing or sterilizing bottles, vials, ampoules, and other glass or plastic containers. Washing solutions include both linear and rotary washers, as well as customized solutions. Sterilization systems include moist heat sterilization, dry heat sterilization, and ethylene oxide sterilization (EtO). Besides the sterilization equipment itself process validation is required, including documentation of cycle repeatability and the functions of the sterilization system.
PPS offers a range of solutions for filling various liquids into glass or plastic containers, making them ideal for pharmaceutical, cosmetic, or food applications. The liquid filling machines can handle liquids of almost any viscosity and numerous container sizes and designs.
The high degree of automation optimizes the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of the liquid filling systems. The modular design and numerous configuration options present a solution that can be fitted to all customer specifications. Also, the filling machines can easily be combined with secondary packaging solutions.
The machine features a positive intermittent-motion, linear transport and brushless motors for precise movements. It can be equipped with all types of dosing systems typically used for aseptic products and with a checkweighing system composed of load cells for tare weight detection before filling and load cells for gross weight detection after dosing.
In addition to our filling equipment for non-sterile liquids, we also supply aseptic filling machines. All aseptic liquid filling machines from IMA guarantee excellent sterility assurance levels (SAL) and conforms to current Good Manufacturing Practice.
It is an inline filling & stoppering machine with a positive inline transport system. The machine is suitable for filling liquid solutions into cylindrical vials and for the insertion of rubber stoppers. During the aseptic filling of dose containers, it is essential to prevent contamination, thus minimizing its exposure to environment, equipment, manipulation from operators, etc., until its sealing.
The semi-automatic loading and unloading system is very similar to our fully automatic system. The difference lies in the transport of the vials from the infeed/outfeed (un)loading system to the lyophilizer. As with the fully automatic system, the semi-automatic solution fills the gap between aseptic filling and capping operations. It is suitable for Cleanroom environments and pre-arranged for cRABS technologies.
The technology behind is suitable for cosmetic products, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and other food supplements. We offer the best suitable solution for filling liquids into ampoules, bottles, vials, syringes, capsules, or tubes. The filling equipment can be integrated into different packaging lines or other integrated solutions. Thereby you will benefit from the synergetic effects of integrating the entire packaging line.
PPS offers a range of solutions for filling various liquids into glass or plastic containers, making them ideal for pharmaceutical, cosmetic, or food applications. The filling machines can handle liquids of almost any viscosity and numerous container sizes and designs.
For example, in a liquid filling operation, where 10,000 L is being filled 50 mL per bottle, residue in the cleaned filling needle is not likely to be evenly distributed into all 200,000 bottles of filled product. Rather, that residue may preferentially be removed and only contaminate the first 10 (for example) bottles. In this sense, cleaning validation is even more critical for packaging equipment. Some may question whether cleaning validation is required for packaging of such items as coated tablets and gelatin capsules. After all, coated tablet residues left on surfaces are most likely to be residues of the coating left on surfaces due to such effects as abrasion. However, if those coated tablets can be crushed during the packaging process, then drug active may be released. The same is true for capsules, where active material may be released and be present on equipment surfaces before cleaning. If not adequately cleaned, those residues of actives may contaminate the next packaged product. And, because of non-uniform transfer, this concern becomes even more critical. In the case of capsules and coated tablets, if one can clearly establish that the capsules or coated tablet are never crushed or otherwise damaged so as to release product, then it may be possible to write a justification as to why cleaning is not critical and thus cleaning validation may not be required. However, even in that situation, it would be prudent to prepare a plan of action if (in the future) capsules or coated tablets are crushed to release active.
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