A step forward towards full quality assurance
The challenge of quality assurance of pharmaceutical products and processes
- Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) is at the heart of a quality system governing the manufacture and testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients and finished products.
- Compounding medicines without QA measures in place increases the risk of patients using products that may be inauthentic, adulterated, sub-potent, or overdosed.
- Pharmacists have the responsibility to perform full-profile, finished-product testing to validate conformity with the prescription.
- Visual and/or gravimetric controls are helpful but do not fully prevent wrong medication and dosing errors.
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is a costly and time consuming analytical technique mostly suited for post-production control and consistency of manufacturing processes …well after medications have been dispensed!
Multispec+provides end-product testing within the pharmacy workflow
- Multispec+ was designed in collaboration with hospital pharmacists to meet the dual objective of analytical verification of drug admixtures and workflow integration.
- Multispec+ determines both the active pharmaceutical ingredients and the concentration contained in the admixture, scientifically, in real time, dose after dose.
- Results can be printed and / or exported in text or Microsoft Access or Excel format. Multispec+ also allows the reprocessing of sample spectra.
- Multispec+ helps identify where and when failures occur in the compounding process.
- Multispec+ is also an ideal tool for proficiency training in compounding and certification of pharmacy technicians.
- Multispec+ analysis software provides meaningful reports and graphics for QA documentation and process improvement.
- Multispec+ can be interfaced to the electronic prescription system for complete workflow integration and traceability.
The Multispec+ analyzer from Microdom offers absolute and cost-effective qualitative & quantitative control of high-risk medications compounded in the hospital pharmacy workflow, seamlessly, rapidly, consistently.
