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Objectionable microorganisms in pharmaceutical production: Validation of a decision tree

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The release of quality, safe, and effective non-sterile drugs needs to exclude the presence of objectionable microorganisms, which include microorganisms potentially involved in product degradation, or considered as poor hygiene indicator during manufacturing, or causing adverse effect on patient's health. In this paper, a method allowing objective and verifiable evaluations has been investigated through the development of a suitable decision tree with a template for data collection. The decision tree has been used to establish which microorganisms were objectionables, using several hypothetical scenarios in which 24 different biological agents, both harmless microorganisms and opportunistic pathogens, were combined with 9 different products, representing each type of administration route for non sterile drugs. The results showed that the use of aforementioned approach makes the microorganisms evaluation easy and verifiable and highlighted that even the microbes initially considered harmless could be objectionable.

Objectionable microorganismDecision treeNon-sterile drugsMicrobial contaminationDrug product qualityQuantitative microbial risk assessment

Burgalassi, Susi、Ceccanti, Stefano、Vecchiani, Sandra、Leonangeli, Giulia、Federigi, Ileana、Carducci, Annalaura、Verani, Marco

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Univ Pisa, Dept Pharm, Via Bonanno 6, I-56126 Pisa, Italy

Abiogen Pharma, Microbiol Lab, Via Meucci 36,1 Ospedaletto, Pisa, Italy

Univ Pisa, Dept Biol, Lab Hyg & Environm Virol, Via S Zeno 35-39, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

2021

European journal of pharmaceutical sciences

European journal of pharmaceutical sciences

ISTP
ISSN:0928-0987
年,卷(期):2021.166
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