Good Manufacturing Practice 454 INDEX

In batch-oriented quality management systems, such as good manufacturing practice (GMP), the batch number of an active substance or a product is the main index variable, where the entire information about sourcing of materials, manufacturing, analysis (control), packaging, and distribution is attached. 

Eudralex. Volimie 4. Guide to good manufacturing practices for medicinal products. http //ec.europa.eu/health/documents/ eudralex/vol-4/index en.htm... 

After a product or a process has been appropriately evaluated in terms of its usefulness and adequacy in the manufacturing operation the evaluation of the resulting product in terms of its acceptability to the consumer remains to be done. This also should be done with the aid of statistical methods, since there is at present in many cases no substitute for the subjective evaluation of a quality attribute of a food product. Where they exist, objective methods are usually used in conjunction with subjective methods in an effort to correlate them, with a view to the ultimate use of the objective method as a simple and inexpensive index of the quality of the product in question. In terms of research, however, in many cases this may not be done because no objective methods of evaluation exist. A good example concerns the evaluation of the flavor of a food product where, with practically no exceptions, subjective evaluation must be used. 

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