Innovation in Healthcare Products

Good Laboratory Practice includes SOPS, being able to replicate your experiments and results under same conditions. To pass an inspection there must be robust processes in place where you can measure, justify and prove the steps happening in the process. With lots of chemical reactions you need to know what you are getting and supposed to get. From starting materials, environmental conditions, manipulation, labelling, roles / responsibilities.

Good Manufacturing Practice – the key is scale. When you use a natural source such as a plant, you need lot of chemical research to see how you can change it or develop synthetically to reduce environmental damage and loss of species. The development requires good heat, light conditions and for higher volumes. You need to prove that product does not degrade during manufacturing. The drug must still have the same characteristics as it did in the lab. You don’t want it to change composition or you have to start again from beginning.

Once you have completed successful pre-clinical trials for medicines, you will begin to manufacture your product for clinical trials.

If it's a medicinal product, your country may allow pharmacists to manufacture the product in their own store. Some pioneering and successful international case studies: