Pharmaceutical QC/QA

During her SIWES industrial internship at Phamatex Industries Limited, Lagos, Jessica worked in pharmaceutical quality control and assurance, carrying out pharmaceutical microbiology testing, water-for-injection quality testing and deviation investigation. This work is governed by good manufacturing practice, the framework the World Health Organization sets out to ensure that medicinal products are consistently produced and controlled to quality standards [1]. Her tasks, from environmental and water monitoring to documenting and investigating deviations and non-conformances, map directly onto the GMP principles of controlled process, traceability and continuous quality assurance [1]. The internship gave her early, regulated-environment experience in quality systems and CAPA thinking, discipline she carries into the reproducibility and documentation of her research.