Question from a validation beginner in the pharmaceutical industry.
- What are the common approaches to start writing validation protocols (esp. IQ, OQ, PQ)?
- What are the common approaches to start executing validation protocols?
Question from a validation beginner in the pharmaceutical industry.
Commonly validation protocols are derived from Requirements documents. Therefore review the requirements document to create the validation protocol.
Installation Qualification (IQ): Procedure to evaluate the means of the equipment and the testing of it material. Below is an example of IQ document.
Operational Qualification (OQ): Procedure to validate the equipment or product parameters
Performance Qualification (PQ): This processes mostly like a stress test, that will validate the boundary conditions. For example if the Motor is specified to run at a minimum speed of 25 RPM and a maximum speed of 150 RPM, this process will test and document the results.
Sometime some of these steps are combined, such as OQ and PQ.