Manufacturing of Quality Oral Drug Products: Processing and Safe Handling of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (Api)

This book provides an understanding of what is required to engineer and manufacture drug products. It bridges established concepts and provides for a new outlook by concentrating and creating new linkages in the implementation of manufacturing, quality assurance, and business practices related to drug manufacturing and healthcare products.

This book fills a gap by providing a connection between drug production and regulated applications. It focuses on drug manufacturing, quality techniques in oral solid dosage, and capsule filling including equipment and critical systems, to control production and the finished products. The book offers a correlation between design strategies and a step-by-step process to ensure the reliability, safety, and efficacy of healthcare products. Fundamentals of techniques, quality by design, risk assessment, and management are covered along with a scientific method approach to continuous improvement in the usage of computerized manufacturing and dependence on information technology and control operations through data and metrics.

Manufacturing and Quality Assurance of Oral Pharmaceutical Products: Processing and Safe Handling of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) is of interest to professionals and engineers in the fields of manufacturing engineering, quality assurance, reliability, business management, process, and continuous improvement, life cycle management, healthcare products manufacturing, pharmaceutical processing, and computerized manufacturing.

Dr. Sam A. Hout is a chartered chemical engineer and certified in business management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS). He also is a member of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE) and specializes in process engineering and business process improvement. He received his education and training in the UK (Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Bath) and in the United States (MBA, University of California). For the past 20 years in aseptic manufacturing, he held the position of Sr. Director of Engineering, project management, and technology process transfers at SIEGFRIED Pharmaceuticals. Previously, Dr. Hout has held the position of Sr. Manager of Engineering at TEVA Pharmaceuticals, parenteral medicines in Irvine, California. These specialty divisions produced sterile injectable drugs for hospital institutional markets worldwide.

Prior to assuming the position at Teva, Dr. Hout was Director of Operations at PHENOMENEX, the leading global company in HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) for drug separation and analysis. During the past thirty years, Dr. Hout has helped to guide leading companies in technical positions such as J&J, Medtronic, and Fischer Scientific in developing and producing medical devices and diagnostic standards that combat disease and promote healthier lives. In working with a global market, Dr. Hout travels frequently throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East.