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EU GMP Annex 1: Manufacture of Sterile Medicinal Products training provides essential knowledge of the revised Annex 1 requirements for sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing and contamination control. It explains how sterile operations, quality systems, and manufacturing controls are managed to meet regulatory expectations and ensure product sterility and patient safety.
This EU GMP Annex 1: Manufacture of Sterile Medicinal Products Course & Certification covers contamination control strategy (CCS), aseptic processing, cleanroom requirements, environmental monitoring, sterilisation processes, pharmaceutical water and gas systems, barrier technologies, single-use systems, qualification, validation, quality risk management, and regulatory inspection expectations. Upon successful completion, learners receive a certification demonstrating their understanding of EU GMP Annex 1 requirements and sterile manufacturing best practices.

Who Should Enrol?

  • Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) Professionals
  • Sterile Manufacturing and Production Personnel
  • Microbiology and Environmental Monitoring Teams
  • Validation and Qualification Specialists
  • Engineering and Pharmaceutical Utility Professionals
  • Regulatory Affairs and Compliance Professionals
  • Auditors and GMP Consultants
  • Anyone involved in sterile medicinal product manufacturing and GMP compliance
📢 Every purchase also includes our FREE companion EU GMP Annex 1: Manufacture of Sterile Medicinal Products eBook, designed to help you apply principles in real-world manufacturing settings.

What you will learn

Understand the key principles of EU GMP Annex 1, contamination control strategy (CCS), and regulatory expectations for sterile medicinal product manufacturing.

Learn about aseptic processing, cleanroom classification, qualification, environmental monitoring, sterilisation, and contamination control measures.

Develop knowledge of pharmaceutical utilities, water systems, barrier technologies, single-use systems, quality risk management, and inspection readiness.

Gain understanding of Annex 1 compliance requirements, documentation practices, validation principles, and best practices for maintaining sterile manufacturing operations.

Course Syllabus

  1. Scope, principle and the 2022 revision
  2. The Contamination Control Strategy (CCS)
  3. Contamination routes and the risk-based mindset
  4. Reading Annex 1: how the document is built
  5. The regulatory landscape and getting started
  6. Worked examples

  1. QRM as the engine of Annex 1
  2. The PQS for sterile manufacture
  3. Sustaining control: review, CAPA and change
  4. QRM tools and proportionate control
  5. Cleaning, disinfection and validation
  6. Worked examples

  1. People as the primary contamination source
  2. Gowning and gowning qualification
  3. Aseptic behaviour and interventions
  4. Access, flows and training
  5. Changing rooms, flows and training programmes
  6. Worked examples

  1. Cleanroom grades and their use
  2. Classification limits and qualification
  3. Airflow, pressure and recovery
  4. Classifying and monitoring the environment
  5. Requalification, disinfection and design detail
  6. Worked examples

  1. Water systems and WFI
  2. Clean steam, gases and vaccum
  3. HVAC as a contamination control
  4. Designing and monitoring critical utilities
  5. Vaccum, compressed air detail and lifecycle
  6. Worked examples

  1. Why barrier technology
  2. RABS versus isolators
  3. Single-use systems and equipment design
  4. Applying barriers and single-use systems
  5. Transfers, decontamination and lifecycle
  6. Worked examples

  1. Choosing the sterilisation route
  2. Sterilisation methods and filtration
  3. Aseptic process simulation
  4. Validating sterilisation and simulating the aseptic process
  5. Specific technologies and dry-heat depyrogenation
  6. Worked examples

  1. Environmental and process monitoring
  2. Limits, trends and excursions
  3. Inspection readiness
  4. Building and defending the monitoring programme
  5. Quality control, sampling and the release picture
  6. Worked examples

  1. 📘 Bonus: EU GMP Annex 1: Manufacture of Sterile Medicinal Products eBook (Free with purchase)

Course Benefits

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eBook

Access the course content in eBook format, which can be downloaded and read on your device.

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CPD Points

Gain Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points, accredited by The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. These can be used to count towards the distance learning element of any scheme that comes under the umbrella of The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges or any other scheme for which there is mutual recognition.

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Certification

Receive a personal certificate to show your subject knowledge on course completion.

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Affordable

You get excellent value through our cost-effective prices. We can also offer you group discounts on larger purchases.

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Flexibility

The course saves you time through the convenience of online availability. This lets you complete the interactive course at your own comfort.

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Keep Up to Date

You will stay up to date with the revised EU GMP Annex 1 (published 25 August 2022, effective 25 August 2023), including its expectations for the Contamination Control Strategy, Quality Risk Management, barrier technologies, single-use systems, PUPSIT and aseptic process simulation, together with related PIC/S alignment and current inspection practice for sterile facilities.

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Learn from Industry Experts

This course was developed by sterile-manufacturing and contamination-control specialists with practical experience of aseptic processing, cleanroom qualification, sterilisation validation and regulatory inspection across pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical operations. Each module ties the requirements of Annex 1 to real manufacturing decisions and inspection expectations.


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