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'GAMP Council just had two of its foremost subject matter experts review GAMP5 in depth against current industry expectations. I'd like to add in (with my paraphrasing, as I didn't record the response verbatim) the response from Michael Rutherford, immediate past chair of GAMP Global Council to this question: Effective assessment (and mitigation) of risk remains the key challenge across the industry. The ISPE does a good job in offering pragmatic training courses to help navigate and understand the complex regulations and guidance. With the high level of detail between the main GAMP guide and the various Good Practice Guides it can be a bit intimidating to someone coming new to this area. Over the years GAMP has evolved from the pre-ISPE 'forum' through the various versions which focused between a manufacturer's guide to a supplier's guide to it's current key foundation of risk driven by the various Regulatory Bodies and standards like ASTM 2500. To effectively leverage the documentation between suppliers and manufacturers common ground needs to be found between the two sides, of which agreement of risk is an essential foundation. Systems risk which is more from a equipment/database/control system supplier's perspective. product/process/safety/manufacturing risk (from a manufacturer's perspective) and 2. One core element includes the 2 key classifications of risk assessment covering 1. I agree with Charlie's comments but still there a number of areas with which companies still struggle. Zipps challenge of helping to author a GPG. With the ever changing landscape of technology in the pharmaceutical life cycle and the ever-present threat of another Stuxnet-esque attack, it sounds like it's time for a new supplemental guide to GAMP. It's well worth the read for my fellow process and automation engineers, pharma or otherwise.

Young has also published papers on the compatibility and integration of InfoSec with GAMP: The Integration of Information Security to FDA and GAMP 5 Validation Processes and Cyber Security and Data Integrity Problems Within the GAMP 5 Validation Process, which outlines some of the gaps in integrating InfoSec into the validation process outlined in GAMP, and the process environments.

#Gamp categories examples iso#

Ensuring ISO 27001/27002 (or even knowing where to begin!) would elicit blank stares from many process and automation engineers. No, but not only is GPG needed, but it needs to be updated frequently to keep up with modern technology.Īs an automation engineer myself, it's sometimes difficult to accurately gauge risk severity and actions required to secure an automation or MES system from outside influences.Įnsuring Part 11 or Annex 11 compliance as part of a process automation system is routine: Turn on the audit trail.A Good Practice Guide (GPG) is needed to help explain and assess threat levels and vulnerabilities for a risk analysis process, as well as perform traceability.There are no big parts of GAMP or any of the guides that severely contradict InfoSec, there are some conflicts occasionally. Young, Principal Cyber Security Architect of Silver Bullet Security and David Margetts, Managing Director of Werum IT Solutions - have to say on the topic: Let's hear what a few of the experts - Jason N. This is by no fault or design of its own, as the guide is designed to help navigate the difficult requirements set forth by the myriad of regulatory agencies - a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for pharmaceutical process validation, if you will.

However, there are portions where GAMP may bewilder a network engineer, or seem incompatible with standard information security (InfoSec) practices. The GAMP guide provides an excellent, industry andregulatory wide accepted framework to help keep computerized systems' validation activities aligned with the various regulations. GAMP 5) being published in 2008, almost a decade ago. It has been updated four times over 17 years, with the latest GAMP guide (a.k.a. It's a very valid and pertinent question GAMP itself was developed in 1991, primarily to deal with the FDA's expectations of Good 'X' Practices regulations.