Tuesday 24 September 2013

Cleaning Levels

Change over cleaning activity shall be separate in three different level based on their criticality. This approach is outlined in the below.


Level
Thoroughness cleaning
Cleaning Validation
Example
2
Carryover of previous product is critical.
Essential / Must
API A àAPI B
1
Carryover of the previous product is less critical
Necessary
Crude API A à Intermediate of API B
0
Carryover of the previous product is sequential earlier stage of API
Not required, only gross cleaning shall be done
Crude API à API A

Level 2 is indicating that cleaning validation is essential and must be performed for product changeover from API A (Previous Product / Product to be cleaned) to API B (Product to be taken / Next Product).

Level 1 is indicating that cleaning verification shall be performed for intermediates changeover.

Level 0 is indicating that gross cleaning shall be performed for sequential intermediates changeover of API.  


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