Health products policy and standards
Our team provides authoritative guidance and standards on quality, safety and efficacy of health products and supports countries to formulate evidence-based policies and ensure good practice throughout the value chain.
Quality control guidelines
The term “quality control” refers to the sum of all procedures undertaken to ensure the identity and purity of a particular pharmaceutical. Such procedures may range from the performance of simple chemical experiments which determine the identity and screening for the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances (e.g. thin layer chromatography, infrared spectroscopy, and so on), to more complicated requirements of pharmacopoeial monographs. Activities extend to the area of quality control laboratories (e.g. good laboratory management practices, models, for example for certificates of analysis and lists of laboratory equipment, and an external assessment scheme).