Significance of Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Pharmaceutical Production
Dr Md Anawar Hossain
What is quality control (QC)?
The main job of quality control is to test, analyse and verify the medicine at different stages of production in the pharmaceutical industry, and make sure that every product maintains the highest quality. Quality control also checks any defects in products and solve these problems using corrective process. Furthermore, quality control process inspects and approves products when they fulfil the required customer and regulatory standards. Quality control is a key step in quality management of pharmaceutical products and workplace (Kniebe, 2022).
What is quality assurance (QA)?
Quality assurance is a process which ensures meeting the quality requirements of the products. Quality assurance defines processes, establishes standards and develops guidelines for better quality management, which act to prevent mistakes and defects, as well as manage quality (Kniebe, 2022).
Difference between quality control and quality assurance
The quality control and quality assurance have some differences between them, which mainly focus on their purpose and objectives. Quality assurance works on the process, while quality control ensures the product’s quality. But both of these processes are essential for the production and release of different medical products.
Significance of quality control and quality assurance
Sometimes, people do mistake using these terms in pharmaceutical production. Although quality control and quality assurance define the different aspects of quality management, but both of them work hard to fulfil the high expectations and demands of customers (Kniebe, 2022). Both quality control and quality assurance endeavour to ensure that the products have been manufactured following the correct process and products are safe to use, as well as having their expected effect.
Reference
Kniebe N., 2022. Quality control vs quality assurance in a pharmaceutical setting. Quanta, Published on 27 July 2022. https://www.quanta-cs.com/blogs/2022-7/quality-control-vs-quality-assurance-pharma.