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The usage of the GMP (good manufacturing practices) quality management system for veterinary pharmaceutical industries

The need to develop quality control and management methods has been faced as an improvement factor for the competitiveness and permanence of companies in their sectors. Nonetheless, in some industrial segments, this situation of quality control and management also occurs considering the demands for complying with governmental standards and legislations, such as the segment of industries manufacturing veterinary products in Brazil. This article intends to depict the main aspects and results which come from a survey research, which tried to analyze how veterinary product manufacturers have been adapted to the usage of Good Manufacturing Practices as a system of quality control and management. Due to collecting a bibliography, aspects relating to the context of agribusiness competitiveness and the market of veterinary products are described, as well as the main topics relating to standard procedures emphasized in Good Manufacturing Practices. The study was carried out as a survey in companies manufacturing veterinary products, attempting to characterize the methodology of the adopted research, as well as to report and analyze the collected data. The study concludes, among other aspects, that veterinary product manufacturers have been implementing Good Manufacturing Practices which are more encouraged by aspects which come from a more efficient management of their productive resources than by complying with governmental standards and legislations.

Good manufacturing practices; GMP; Veterinary pharmaceutical industry; Quality management


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