Good manufacturing practice (GMP)

Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) describes a set of principles and procedures that when followed helps ensure that therapeutic goods are of high quality.

A basic tenet of GMP is that:

• quality cannot be tested into a batch of product
• quality must be built into each batch of product during all stages of the manufacturing process.

There are different codes of GMP, depending on the type of therapeutic good.

For details go to Manufacturing medicines.