GMP

How it is used

Used across the pharmaceutical industry: GMP guidelines, GMP inspections, GMP certificates and GMP-compliant facilities. Regulators inspect manufacturers regularly. GMP belongs to a family of 'good practice' rules, with GCP (good clinical practice) for trials and GDP (good distribution practice) for storage and transport.

Example sentences

1. The factory passed its GMP inspection without any major findings.

2. All batches must be made under GMP conditions.

Common collocations

• GMP inspection
• GMP certificate
• GMP-compliant
• GMP guidelines

Related terms

• marketing authorisationThe official permission from a medicines regulator that allows a company to sell a medicine for specific uses, doses and patient groups.
• pharmacovigilanceThe science and activities of detecting, assessing, understanding and preventing adverse effects and other safety problems of medicines once they are on the market.
• cold chainThe system of keeping temperature-sensitive medicines, such as vaccines and insulin, within a set range, usually 2–8 °C, all the way from manufacture to the patient.
• compoundingThe preparation by a pharmacist of a medicine made for an individual patient, such as a liquid for a child who cannot swallow tablets, when no suitable licensed product exists.

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