GxP

This article is about standards for quality assurance. For other uses, see GXP (disambiguation).

GxP is a general term for Good (Anything...) Practice quality guidelines and regulations. These guidelines are used in many fields, including the pharmaceutical and food industries.

The titles of these good practice guidelines usually begin with "Good" and end in "Practice", with the specific practice descriptor in between. GxP represents the abbreviations of these titles, where x (a common symbol for a variable) represents the specific descriptor.

A "c" or "C" is sometimes added to the front of the initialism. The preceding "c" stands for "current." For example, cGMP is an acronym for "current Good Manufacturing Practices". The term GxP is frequently used to refer in a general way to a collection of quality guidelines.

Purpose

The purpose of the GxP quality guidelines is to ensure a product is safe and meets its intended use. GxP guides quality manufacture in regulated industries including food, drugs, medical devices and cosmetics.

The most central aspects of GxP are:

• Traceability: the ability to reconstruct the development history of a drug or medical device.
• Accountability: the ability to resolve who has contributed what to the development and when.

Documentation is a critical tool for ensuring GxP adherence. For more information, see Good Manufacturing Practice.

List of GxPs

• Good Auditing Practice, or GAP
• Good Agricultural Practices, or GAP
• Good Agriculture and Collection Practice, or GACP
• Good Aquaculture & Fishery Practices, or GAFP
• Good Automated Laboratory Practice, or GALP
• Good Automated Manufacturing Practice, or GaMP
• Good Business Practices, or GBPs
• Good Civil Engineering Practice
• Good Clinical Data Management Practice, or GCDMP
• Good Clinical Practice, or GCP
• Good Clinical Laboratory Practice, or GCLP
• Good Distribution Practice, or GDP
• Good Documentation Practice, or GDP, or GDocP (to distinguish from "distribution")
• Good Engineering Practice, or GEP
• Good Financial Practice, or GFP
• Good Guidance Practice, or GGP
• Good Hygiene Practices, or GHPs
• Good Horticultural Practices, or GHP
• Good Viticultural Practices, or GVP
• Good Information Systems Practice, or GISP
• Good Information Technology Practice, or GITP
• Good Laboratory Practice, or GLP
• Good Logo Practice, or GLgP
• Good Manufacturing Practice, or GMP
• Good Management Practice, or GMP
• Good Microbiological Practice, or GMiP
• Good Participatory Practice, or GPP
• Good Pharmacovigilance Practice, or GPvP or even GVP
• Good Pharmacy Practice, or GPP
• Good Policing Practices, or GPPs
• Good Road Traffic Engineering Practice
• Good Road Transportation Practice
• Good Research Practice, or GRP
• Good Recruitment Practice or GRP
• Good Safety Practice, or GSP
• Good Storage Practice, or GSP
• Good Service Practice, or GSP
• Good Tissue Practices or cGTP
• Good Tourism & Hospitality Practices, or GTHP
• Good Wellbeing Practice, or GWP

See also

• Best practice
• European Medicines Agency (EMEA)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH)
• Japan Ministry of Health
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Validation (drug manufacture)
• Society of Quality Assurance The Society of Quality Assurance (SQA) is a professional group focused on GxP-regulated environments.