MINISTRY OF HEALTH
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No. 302/BYT-QLD
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Hanoi, January 22, 2014
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To: Drug manufacturers, drug importers,
and applicants for drug registration
On August 31, 2012, the Ministry of Health issued the Circular No. 14/2012/TT-BYT on principles, standards, and application of Good
manufacturing practice (GMP) for pharmaceutical packaging. Article 9 Clause 5
says:
“a) From April 01, 2013, the facilities that produce drugs circulating on
the market may only use the primary packages (level 1) that are uncleanable
before use such as rolled packages (aluminum foil or PVC foil) and syringes
provided by facilities that complies with GMP of pharmaceutical packaging...
“b) From April 01, 2013, the facilities
that produce drugs circulating on the market may only use other
kinds of primary packages provided by the
facilities comply with GMP of pharmaceutical packaging. The
batches of packages must be enclosed with certificates of testing, original
stamps and labels of manufacturers".
Instructions on the implementation of the Circular No. 14/2012/TT-BYT:
1. General principles:
a) All packages in physical contact with drugs circulated in Vietnam must
undergo quality inspection and meet quality standards before being used for
manufacture of finished drugs, and must be safe for users.
b) The quality standards applied to packages in physical contact with
drugs must include the criteria for package materials and be conformable with
Vietnam’s pharmacopoeia as well as other common pharmacopoeias such as
England’s, USA’s, Japan’s, Europe’s, or International pharmacopoeia.
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2. Clause 5 Article 9 of the Circular No. 14/2012/TT-BYT is interpreted as follows:
When submitting the application for the first drug registration, renewal
of drug registration, or a manifest of imported drugs without registration
numbers, the applicant must submit additional documents proving that the
packages in physical contact with drugs are manufactured at a facility that
complies with GMP, in particular:
a) A certificate of the package manufacturer’s compliance with GMP issued
by a competent authority.
b) If the law of the home country prescribes that no Certificate of GMP is
issued to the manufacturer of pharmaceutical packages, the manufacturer must
present a certification issued by the a competent authority of the home country
that the manufacturer of pharmaceutical packages meet the standards in Appendix
1 to this Dispatch.
Accordingly, Clause 5 Article 9 of the Circular No.
14/2012/TT-BYT shall come into force on July 01, 2014”.
3. The requirements in Clause 2 of this Dispatch are
not applicable to the importers of rare drugs, the drugs serving special
demands of hospitals and inoculation centers, drugs serving urgent prevention
of epidemics, disaster recovery, drugs serving national medical programs,
humanitarian assistance drugs, drugs for clinical experiments, samples for
registration, drugs serving research, experiments, bioavailability study,
bioequivalence study, drugs for exhibitions, drugs for non-commercial imports,
and other cases of temporary import.
4. The import of packages in physical contact with
drugs must comply with the Circular No. 47/2010/TT-BYT dated
February 29, 2010 of the Minister of Health providing instructions on the
export and import of drugs and packages in physical contact with drugs, the
Circular No. 14/2012/TT-BYT dated August 31, 2012 of the
Minister of Health on the principles, standards, and application of Good
manufacturing practice for pharmaceutical packaging.
5. The Drug Administration of Vietnam shall receive
applications for drug registrations, the manifests of drugs without
registration numbers; appoint officers and experts to assess the submitted
documents and issue registration number on schedule.
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PP THE MINISTER
DIRECTOR OF THE DRUG ADMINISTRATION OF VIETNAM
Truong Quoc Cuong
APPENDIX 1
REQUIREMENTS FOR MANUFACTURERS OF PACKAGES
IN PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH DRUGS
(promulgated together with the Dispatch No. 302/BYT-QLD
of the Ministry of Health)
No.
CONTENTS
1.
Quality control system
a.
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b.
The production division and quality management division must be
independent from each other.
c.
The chief of the quality assurance division may concurrently hold the
position of the chief of the quality inspection division.
d.
Inspection must be maintained throughout the manufacturing process.
dd.
Internal standards of customers must be established among the divisions
of the factory, including material supply, experiment, manufacture,
packaging, preservation, and distribution. Adherence to such standards shall
be assessed by one another to support the comprehensive quality control
2.
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a.
The staff of quality assurance department, quality inspection
department, the workshop, and other departments (warehouses,
electromechanics, etc.) must be physically and professionally qualified.
Number of staff members:
Number of holders of bachelor’s degrees, college degrees, junior college
degrees, primary degrees,
b.
Periodic health checks must be provided for the staff.
c.
Every group of staff members must have a separate work description sheet.
The tasks and entitlements of the chief of the quality assurance division,
the chief of the production management division, the chief of the quality
inspection department, and authorized managers must be specified in writing.
d.
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dd.
The instructors must have knowledge, experience, and be trained in GMP.
e.
An examination must be carried out after every training course.
g.
Training documents must be retained in full.
3.
Workshop
a.
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b.
The restrooms must be located away from the manufacture area.
c.
The area where packages are manufactured must be isolated from the areas
where other products are manufactured in a way that is compatible with other
areas such as storage of raw materials, package preservation, and storage of
finished products.
d.
The manufacture chambers must be arranged in conformity with one-way
principles and spacious enough for placing and operating the devices.
dd.
Classes of cleanliness in manufacture chambers must be suitable for the
products and the manufacture stages.
e.
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g.
The preservation areas must meet the conditions and conform to the
preserved items.
h.
An overall assessment must be carried out before the workshop is put
into operation. Periodic assessments must be carried out. The assessment
results must be retained.
4.
Equipment
a.
Install a system of equipment that meets the requirements for
manufacture and quality inspection.
b.
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c.
Periodically maintain, inspect, and label the equipment.
d.
Periodically inspect and calibrate the scales, manometers, and other
measurement devices to ensure the accuracy.
dd.
Use proper vehicles to transport goods and products.
5.
Hygiene
a.
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b.
Introduce regulations on access to manufacture areas applicable to
unauthorized persons, sick employees, or visitors.
c.
The personal protective equipment and footwear used in the factory by
packaging workers and the workers in areas where classes of cleanliness are
controlled must be distinguished from clothing worn outside.
d.
Establish standard operation procedures (SOPs) for personal hygiene and
manufacturing equipment, use the equipment that is manufactured and assessed
according to the SOPs.
dd.
Workers must dry their hands after using the restroom and before wearing
personal protective equipment.
e.
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g.
Manufacturing instruments and detachable parts must be cleaned and
preserved in separate rooms.
h.
Only use clean water to rinse manufacturing instruments.
i.
Assess the limits on contamination of physical dust and microbiological
dust of compressed air (in contact with the equipment, in the clean room, and
open products).
k.
Periodically sterilize the manufacture chambers (including the air
supply system).
l.
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6.
Materials
a.
Enumerate some primary materials and types of water used for
manufacturing packages.
b.
Employ a method to assess the quality of water used for the manufacture.
c.
Establish quality standards of the materials used in the factory.
d.
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dd.
Quality standards of materials and finished
packages must conform to the Vietnam’s pharmacopoeia and
other common pharmacopoeias.
e.
Establish a procedure for assessing the suppliers of raw materials;
assess the suppliers and retain the records.
g.
Purchased materials must be stored separately (bearing yellow labels)
pending sampling, and assessed before used, and preserved in suitable
conditions.
h.
Every batch of material purchased must be examined and approved by a
competent person.
i.
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k.
Enumerate the tests that cannot be run by the laboratory.
l.
All testing certificates of raw materials must be retained.
m.
Specify the inks used on the primary package (level 1) used by the
facility.
n.
Present documents proving the safety of such inks.
7.
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a.
The manager of the workshop, the team leaders and workers must be
sufficient in quantity, proficient, and experienced.
b.
Enumerate the employees that directly participate in the manufacture.
c.
The stages of manufacture must be located in the areas with suitable
class of cleanliness and one-way principle.
d.
Raw materials may only be used when they are approved by a competent
person and have green labels.
dd.
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e.
Each product must follow a manufacture procedure approved by a competent
person.
g.
Enumerate the assessed manufacture procedures out of the established
ones.
h.
The results must be recorded in the documents of the batch.
i.
Carry out inspection during the process to ensure the manufacture
procedure and GMP are adhered to.
k.
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l.
Establish SOPs describing the tasks of IPC officers and the frequency of
each task.
m.
Establish SOPs for operating and cleaning manufacturing equipment.
n.
After each primary stage, the products must be stored separately pending
the results or opinions of competent persons before proceeding.
o.
The release of products must be decided by a competent person after
considering the documents of the batch, results of in-process inspections,
testing certificates, and the relevant factors.
ρ.
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q.
Establish SOPs for collecting, isolating, treating refuses, and keeping
records.
8.
Quality inspection
a.
Establish a laboratory to inspect the quality of raw materials,
intermediary products, finished products, and assess the manufacture conditions.
b.
The chief, the team leaders and staff members of
the laboratory must be sufficient in quantity, proficient, and
experienced.
c.
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d.
The laboratory must meet the requirements
of cleanliness and have adequate equipment to assess the manufacture
conditions and test the bacterial contamination in products.
dd.
Provide testing instruments that are able to test the quality of raw
materials and products.
e.
Enumerate the existing testing instruments.
g.
The instruments must be maintained, inspected, and calibrated
periodically and before use.
h.
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i.
Enumerate the tests that cannot be run by the facility.
k.
Enumerate some bases for certifying the conformity of preliminary
material if the facility cannot run some tests.
l.
Raw materials must be sampled in a way that does not affect the test results
and the representativeness of the samples.
m.
The quantity of samples, time and conditions of sample retention
(including samples of finished products) must meet the requirements for
monitoring quality and settling complaints.
n.
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o.
Specify the expiration dates of the products and conditions for
preserving them in storage and during transportation.
9.
Assessment
a.
Make an assessment plan specifying the necessary tasks during the
assessment.
b.
Establish an assessment council with suitable personnel.
c.
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d.
Give detailed description of the contents that
need assessing, specifying the methods, instruments, participants, applied
standards, time for reassessment, etc.
dd.
The assessment must comply with the approved plan and description.
10.
Documentation
a.
Establish SOPs for compiling, issuing, managing documents, accessing,
adjusting, storing documents via computers, and other SOPs for regular tasks
(personal hygiene, cleaning/operating manufacturing equipment, etc.)
b.
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- The quality standards (requirements, test
methods), raw materials, finished products, and semi-finished products;
- Testing documents (testers’ books, analysis
sheets, testing sheets);
- Logbooks of primary analysis instruments
- Documents about inspection/calibration of
analysis/testing instruments;
- Logbooks of chemicals, reagents, titrants,
titration solutions; sample delivery.
c.
Documents about manufacture must
contain at least:
- Original manufacturing process of each product.
- Documents about the batch.
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- Logbooks of primary manufacturing equipment and
manufacturing conditions.
d.
Make and retain other documents such as:
- Labels;
- Documents about assessment of
equipment/conditions for manufacturing, testing, or preservation;
- Documents about preservation, circulation,
complaint settlement, and recall;
- Documents about assessments of contracted
suppliers, manufacturers, and testers;
- Personnel documents;
- Documents about occupational safety, fire safety,
and environment protection;
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11.
Contractual manufacture and testing
a.
Contractual manufacture or testing is restricted within certain stages
or tests of which the contractee (the applicant for inspection of package
manufacturing conditions) is not capable. Do not overuse contractual
manufacture and testing.
The contractual manufacture and tests must be specified.
b.
The contract must specify both parties’ responsibilities; the contractor
must not delegate their tasks to a third party without the consent of the
contractee; the contractee is entitled to inspect and supervise the
contractor’s compliance.
c.
The contractee must assess the capability of the contractor in terms of
conformity with GMP for pharmaceutical packages to ensure product quality.
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Settling complaints, recalling products, handling returned products
a.
Establish procedures for receiving and processing complaints
about the products, recalling products, and handling returned products.
b.
Establish a council to handle complaints and
returned products.
c.
Keep the documents about complaint settlement and product recall.
13.
Internal inspection
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Formulate a plan for periodic and unscheduled internal inspection, an internal
inspection list (overall or divisional inspection); establish an internal
inspection board (including quality management division and relevant
divisions).
These documents must match the operation of the facility and must be
periodically reviewed and updated.
b.
A report on internal inspection, assessment, classification of flaws,
solutions, rectification plans, implementation of such plans; assess the
accomplishment after each internal inspection.
c.
Documents about internal inspection must be retained in full and
presented on request.