Good manufacturing practice for health food (gmp)
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) for health supplements is an essential component in managing the production process of health supplements to ensure quality, safety and effectiveness in order to meet and maintain the protection of public health.
Good manufacturing practices for health protection foods are principles that regulate production conditions including control of input materials, factory facilities, equipment and tools, human conditions, compliance with operating procedures as well as maintenance, monitoring, inspection, error correction and record keeping.
According to Decision 4288/QD-BYT dated August 8, 2016 on Promulgating the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidance document for Health Supplements, the basic conditions in the entire process of Good Manufacturing Practice for Health Supplements are summarized as follows:
1. Quality Management: Establish a Total Quality Assurance system that combines Good Manufacturing Practices and Quality Control.
2. Human resources: specialized and highly trained
3. Production facilities and equipment: are designed according to the one-way principle, ensuring compliance with industrial hygiene standards.
4. Personal hygiene, factory and equipment, tools: must be performed at a high level in all activities of the Health Protection Food production process.
5. Documentation: must clearly record the activities performed to maintain, preserve, control quality, distribute and issues related to Good Manufacturing Practices for Health Protection Foods.
6. Production process: must be capable of ensuring that products meet required quality, follow correct procedures and are closely supervised.
7. Quality Control: Establish a quality control system to ensure that products are manufactured under appropriate conditions and processes and meet established standards.
8. There must be a written contract between the contract giver and the contract acceptor, clearly stating the duties and responsibilities of each party. Production and testing under the contract must be clearly defined, unified and controlled to avoid misunderstandings that may lead to product quality failure.
