Nip Impressions w/o 14 Jul 25: Housekeeping: GMP, cGMP and the 10 Golden Rules

Jim Thompson discusses Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), highlighting their importance beyond industries directlyconsuming products, such as paperboard manufacturing. It explains that theseFDA and WHO formalized standards, originally from the bakery industry, arecrucial for ensuring product quality and safety. The author emphasizes howadhering to these protocols, including the Ten Golden Rules of cGMP—which coveraspects like facility design, process validation, documentation, stafftraining, and hygiene—can lead to increased profitability and safety acrossvarious manufacturing sectors, regardless of the final product.