Pharmaceutical microbiological quality assurance and control : practical guide for non-sterile manufacturing / edited by David Roesti, Marcel Goverde.

Microbiological control strategy -- Microbial contamination risk assessment in non-sterile drug product manufacturing and risk mitigation -- Qualification of Microbiological laboratory personnel and equipment -- Introduction to culture media in pharmaceutical microbiology for non-sterile products -- Microbiological examination of non-sterile final dosage forms and raw material including acceptance criteria and testing frequency -- Microbial requirements and testing of primary packaging -- Utilities design and testing -- Microbiological Environmental Monitoring -- Identification of microorganisms -- Calculating alert levels and trending of microbiological data -- Exclusion of objectionable microorganisms from non-sterile pharmaceutical drug products -- Data integrity and microbiological excursion handling -- Rapid microbiological methods -- Validation of a rapid microbiological method for the microbiological examination of non-sterile and non-filterable drug products, APIs and excipients -- An Ex-Regulator's View of the Microbiology QA/QC Functions in the US Pharmaceutical Industries -- Practical guide for microbiological QA/QC of non-sterile pharmaceuticals manufacturing for EU -- Which microbiological tests can better be performed in-house and what can be easily outsourced.