The manufacture of sterile products covers a wide range of sterile product types (active substance, excipient, primary packaging material and finished dosage form), packed sizes (single unit to multiple units), processes (from highly automated systems to manual processes) and technologies (e.g. biotechnology, classical small molecule manufacturing systems and closed systems). This Annex provides general guidance that should be used in the design and control of facilities, equipment, systems and procedures used for the manufacture of all sterile products applying the principles of Quality Risk Management (QRM), to ensure that microbial, particulate and endotoxin/pyrogen contamination is prevented in the final product. QRM 完全適用於本文件各章節,通常不會於特定 段落中再提及。在指出特定限量、頻率或範圍的地 方,這些應被視為最低要求;之所以加以陳述,是 基於監管經驗識別出且影響患者安全的歷史事件。