In this post Destruction Of Expired / Rejected Material in the Production Department of Pharmaceuticals company is described.
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Objective:
This procedure is established to destroy Expired Raw Materials, Expired & Rejected Returned Stock, Rejected In-process products, Rejected Packaging Components and obsolete records & documents.
Responsibility:
Warehouse Incharge, QC/QA Manager, Plant Manager, and Chief Executive Officer.
Procedure:
Destruction is to be carried out semiannually preferably in the month of
January & July of every year or whenever required.
Segregate and Collected the Items as under:-
- All rejected Raw Materials (Active & non Active.
- All Rejected in-process products batches.
- All Returned and Rejected Finished Stock from market & production.
- All Rejected Packaging Components and obsolete records and documents.
- Prepare destruction note and sign by QC/QA Manager, Plant Manager and final approval by Chief Executive Officer for destruction.
- All Raw Materials, Inprocess products and finished stock are handed over to outer body contractor for destruction by incineration.
- Packaging Components and the obsolete record is handed over to the sanitation department for destruction by incineration in safe method.
- Destruction process is to be supervised/witnessed by In-process,
List of Recipients
- Supervisor
- Sanitation In-charge.