Industry Group Exploring Number of Batches for Early Stage Validation
This article was originally published in The Gold Sheet
Executive Summary
An upcoming ISPE discussion paper aims to help manufacturers decide on the correct number of batches to run to demonstrate that a process is in a state of control in early stage validation studies.
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