Quality assurance framework for smart drug delivery systems in pharmaceutical industries and its applications

Abstract

Quality assurance is a key term used in manufacturing industries to ensure the safety, efficacy, stability, reliability, potency, purity, and quality of the products that are delivered to the customers. It ensures that the final product is physically, chemically, and biologically fit for the purpose for which it is developed. Quality assurance framework is basically a method to monitor the quality of a process or the product throughout the process i.e., from the selection of raw material till the production of the required product/drug and prevent mistakes and defects during production and development. Smart systems refer to novel systems or approaches to design and deliver desired drugs/products with minimum side effects, maximum therapeutic potency, and improved patient compliance/acceptability. Hence, the quality-assured framework in smart systems is intended to assure that established quality standards of the final product are met when novel approaches are employed in the development/production of drug delivery systems.