An Overview Of The Essentials Of Test Method Validation

By Author: Steve Gray Stevenson
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Even though the unique concept of test method validation is reliant on good science, the expectations which are posed as the test methods in the pharmaceutical industry was only validated and established as a benchmark by the USP in the 1980s and with its subsequent expansion as a renowned international expectation for the pharmaceutical industry, along with the publication of ICH Q2 that happened in the mid 1990s. Both USP <1225> and ICH Q2 are best used to classify test methods that are employed in the industry into various types, which are based on its intended usage and the identification of the characteristics that are considered in the unique validation of each kind of method. 
In order to ensure effective and efficient test method validations, the analyst must possess the understanding of the significance of clearly tracing and recognizing the usage of the test validation method. With the typical understanding of its usage, the analyst will have to categorize the test validation ...
... method into one of the specific types that are identified in the USP and ICH Q2.  Based on the type of test method and using the guidance in the USP and ICH Q2 that the analyst is supposed to recognize the characteristics and features, which are considered for effective and efficient method validation. Pharma training conferences too are quite useful to understand the basics of test method validation.
The US FDA and other type of regulatory agencies are hell bent on critically reviewing test method validations. Observations such as: 'Failure to establish accuracy, reproducibility specificity and sensitivity of test methods employed by your firm', which have appeared in Warning Letters and 483 observations that demonstrate a total lack of comprehensive understanding of the common regulatory expectations. Other such observations that are citing to the individual features have demonstrated a lack of appreciation and gratitude for the process of contributions and for the individual method features based on adequate method validations. One can also join pharma training conferences to improvise on their pharma knowledge. So to do adequate validate test methods, organisations should comprehend the basic and regular terminology connected with test method validation. Read on to find out more essential important about the topic like the crucial requirement for the test method validation and its intended usage for the test method. The kinds of test methods set by the USP and ICH Q2:

The assay
The identification
The testing for impurities, which is quantitative
The testing for impurities, which contains limit
And the performance

 
The unique characteristics of test methods as defined and explained in the USP and ICH Q2 are the need of specificity, total accuracy, accurate precision, providing linearity, wide range, the limit of Accuracy and the ultimate limit of detection.
 
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