Pharmaceutical Production Facilities: Design and Applications

Pharmaceutical Production Facilities: Design and Applications explores the concepts and constraints that must be taken into consideration when designing small, medium, and large scale production plants. The author discusses the layout and the flow of materials and personnel through facilities, with reference to ensuring compliance with good manufacturing practice. He explains how clean rooms have developed and how recent regulations affect their design and assesses changes in standards and quality control. This comprehensive volume makes suggestions for the ideal production environment to enable standards to be validated to current standards.