A Model Quality Assurance System
The WHO has recently published a comprehensive and detailed guide containing recommendations for Quality Assurance systems focusing on prequalification of products and manufacturers, purchasing, storage and distrbution of pharmaceutical products.
The guide is intended to assist organisations in purchasing pharmaceutical products and to assist procurement agencies, which are involved in the prequalification, purchasing, storage and distribution of such products, to procure safe and effective pharmaceuticals of suitable quality.
The guide was previously published as Annex 6 of the 40th Report of the WHO Expert Committe on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations (WHO Technical Report Series No. 937).
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Interagency guidelines - A Model Quality Assurance System for Procurement Agencies
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The long-term goal of these recommendations is the design and implementation of a uniform and harmonised system that will ensure procurement of pharmaceutical products of defined quality for supply to patients, based on a mutually recognized process of prequalification of products and manufacturers by means of product dossier evaluation and inspection of manufacturing sites.
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