Quality by Design (QbD) : A new concept for development of quality pharmaceuticals

Quality by Design (QbD) has become a new concept for development of quality pharmaceutical products, It is an essential part of the modern approach to pharmaceutical quality, QbD is a best solution to build a quality in all pharmaceutical products but it is also a major challenge to the Pharmaceutical industry whose processes are fixed in time, despite inherent process and material variability, Under this concept of QbD throughout designing and development of a product, it is essential to define desire product performance profile [Target product Profile (TPP), Target Product Quality Profile (TPQP)] and identify critical quality attributed (CQA). On the basis of this we can design the product formulation and process to meet the product attributes. This leads to recognise the impact of raw materials [critical material attributes (CMA)], critical process parameters (CPP) on the CQAs and identification and control sources of variability. QbD is an emerging idea which offers pharmaceutical manufacturer with increased self-regulated flexibility while maintaining tight quality standards and real time release of the drug product, This paper discusses the pharmaceutical QbD and describes how it can be used to develop the pharmaceutical products well within the specified period of time.