"This Second Edition discusses ways to improve pharmaceutical product quality while achieving compliance with global regulatory standards. This title serves as a complete source to the subject with comprehensive step-by-step instructions, practical recommendations, standard operating procedures (SOPs), checklists, templates, and graphics for easy incorporation in a laboratory, and explains how to develop and implement a validation strategy for routine, nonroutine, and standard analytical methods, covering the entire equipment, hardware, and software qualification process. It also provides guidance on qualification of certified standards, in-house reference materials, and people qualification, as well as internal and third party laboratory audits and inspections."--BOOK JACKET.