QA & QC Flashcards
Product-oriented, reactive
Part of GMP concerned with
1. Sampling
2. Inspection
3. Analysis (specifications)
4. Documentation
5. Release procedures
6. Inspection control
7. Environmental monitoring
8. Stock control
Defect IDENTIFICATION
Quality Control
Process-oriented, pro-active
1. Prepare SOPs
2. Inventory control
✓ FIFO
✓ Audit
3. Monitoring
Defect PREVENTION
Quality Assurance
According to NATURE Defects
- Ocular
- Internal
According to MEASURABILITY Defects
- Variable
- Attribute
According to MAGNITUDE Defects
- Critical
- Major
- Minor
Part of validation that involves PROVING that any premises, systems and equipment WORK CORRECTLY and lead to expected result
Qualifications
CLOSENESS of results to the TRUE value
Accuracy
Degree of AGREEMENT among individual
test results
Precision
Contaminant in HANDCREAM
KLEP your HANDS
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Contaminant in TalCum powder
Clostridium tetani
Contaminant in EYEdrops or ointments
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
Pseudomonas EYEruginosa
Contaminant in Mouthwashes
E mouth to mouth
E.coli
Contaminant in IV fluids
PEE
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
Erwinia
Enterobacter
Adventitious agents found to be possible contaminants of biological products
Bacteria, Fungi, Viruses
What animal assay use?
Insulin (RABBInsulin)
Tubocurarine (TubocuRABBIT)
Fe Dextran (DexRAN)
**Pyrogen Test
Rabbit
What animal assay use?
Safety of Biologicals
Guinea Pig
What animal assay use?
Safety & Toxicity test
(plastic tubings, elastumeric plastic)
Mouse
What animal assay use?
Digitalis (PIGEtalis)
Pigeon
What animal assay use?
Atropine (CATropine)
Glucagon (GluCATgon)
Cat
What animal assay use?
Heparin or Protamine SO4
(SHEEParin) (Protamine SHEEPate)
Sheep
What animal assay use?
Parathyroid Hormone (ParaDOG)
Dog
Stokes-Monsanto (spring) hardness tester
Hardness
loss of drug during shipment
Friability
*To ensure drug potency
*Tablet dose
o USP 29: 50mg or less
o Revised, 2016: 25 mg or less
*Sample size:
o10 tablets (Limit: 85-115%)
o If not complied, add 20 tablets
(Limit: 75-125%)
Content Uniformity
Con10 UniForEity
What TEST?
*Amount of drug DISSOLUTION in body fluids
*Rate limiting step of ABSORPTION
* Temp: 37 ± 0.5°C
Dissolution Test
What TEST?
*Time required to RELEASE AI from dosage form
Temp: 37 ± 2°C
Disin2gration
Disintegration Test
container to product
LeaChing
product to container
SorPtion
Highly resistant BOROSILICATE glass
✓ Least reactive glass
✓ Composition: SiO2, BORIC oxide (reduces LEACHING)
✓ Chemically resistant glass (against acid, bases and other solvents)
✓ Has high MELTING POINT (withstand high
temp)
✓ Most common Water for Injection
✓ Unbuffered solutions
Powdered Glass Test (Type I)
TREATED (SULFURATION) soda lime glass
✓ Composition:
✓ Relatively high Na2O and CaO, but lower than type III = not chemically resistant
✓ Melts at lower temp than type I
✓ Buffered solutions
Water Attack Test (Type II)
SODALIME glass
✓ Relatively high Na2O and CaO
✓ Melts at lower temp than type I
✓ (MOST COMMON)
Powdered Glass Test (Type III)
General Purpose Soda Lime Glass
NP
Chemical durability and heat shock not a factor
Powdered Glass Test (Type IV)
PLASTIC CONTAINERS
◼ Non-autoclavable
◼ Droppers, solid oral preparation container
Polyethylene
PLASTIC CONTAINERS
◼ Autoclavable
Polypropylene
PLASTIC CONTAINERS
◼ Transparent
◼ Lustrous
◼ For beverages
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
PLASTIC CONTAINERS
◼ Rigid
◼ Good clarity
◼ Blister packaging
Polyvinylchloride (PVC)
Errors in estimating expiration date (ED)
Setting the ED too EARLY
Alpha error
Errors in estimating expiration date (ED)
Setting the ED too LATE
Beta-error
measures the AMOUNT ( % content) of the component present in a given sample
Quantitative analysis
Determines what is present in the
sample (COMPOSITION and IDENTITY)
Qualitative analysis
- TOTAL class of the plant constituents
- Example: Alkaloids, glycosides
Proximate analysis
- SPECIFIC constituent
- Example: Atropine, Digoxin
Ultimate analysis
Aka titration
Volumetric analysis
Number of moles of solute per LITER of solution
Molarity (M)
Number of gram or mole EQUIVALENT weights of solute per liter of solution
Normality (N)
Number of moles of solute per KILOGRAM of solvent
Molality (m)
Solution of KNOWN concentration and volume
Titrant
- Aka titrand
- Solution of UNKWNOWN concentration, but KNOWN volume
Analyte
- Substance that changes color indicating the endpoint
Indicator
- mg or g of analyte that is chemically equivalent to 1mL of the titrant
Titer
wash down drops of standard solution clinging to the tip of the burette:
Wash bottle
Best for cleaning glass apparatus:
Sodium chromate in H2SO4
CHANGE IN VALENCE of the reacting substances
Reduction-oxidation
*INDIRECT titration
*OXIDIZING agents
*Endpoint: DISAPPEARANCE of blue color
(blue -> colorless)
IodOmetry
*DIRECT titration
*REDUCING agents
*Endpoint: APPEARANCE of blue color
(colorless -> blue)
Iodimetry
What is the acid necessary for permanganate titrations
Sulfuric acid
LAWS OF SPECTROSCOPY
Transmittance vs Concentration
(Inversely Proportional) Inc. T = Dec. Conc.
Beer’s Law
LAWS OF SPECTROSCOPY
Transmittance vs Thickness (viscosity)
(Inversely Proportional) Inc. T = Dec. Thick
Lambert’s / Bouguer’s Law
malaki TT ni Lambert
LAWS OF SPECTROSCOPY
Transmittance vs Absorbance
Absorbance vs path length, and concentration
(Inversely Proportional Inc. T = Dec. Absorbance
Beer-Lambert’s or Beer-Bouguer’s Law
TYPES OF SPECTROSCOPY
* Power of TRANSMITTED light
* Chloramphenicol assay: E.coli
* Pen G assay: Staph. aureus
* Assay of ANTIBIOTICS
Turbidimetry***
TYPES OF SPECTROSCOPY
* power of REFLECTED light
* For SUSPENSION
Nephelometry
TYPES OF SPECTROSCOPY
* For FLUORESCENTcompounds
* Assay of Vitamin B1and B2
* VISIBLE region
Fluorometry
TYPES OF SPECTROSCOPY
* FUNCTIONAL GROUP determination
IR Spectroscopy
LAWS OF SPECTROSCOPY
* FES: Na and K
* AAS (more sensitive): TRACE MINERALS
Flame Emission Spectroscopy (FES) and
Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS)
Law of Refraction:
Snell’s Law
process of converting an optically active (d- or /-) compound into the racemic modification.
Racemization
N-containing substances
= protein analysis (milk)
Kjeldahl method
S-containing substances
(sulfonamides)
*aromatic cmpds. with amino group
Diazotization method
- Aka Titrimetric method (1a, 1b, 1c)
- 1° standard = sodium tartrate
- Reagents:
o Pyridine
o Iodine
o Methanol
o SO2
Method 1 Karl Fischer Method
- Solvent: XYLENE or TOLUENE
Method 2 Distillation or Azeotropic method
For CRUDE drugs
Method 3: Gravimetric Method