
Pharmaceutical Standards
Pharmaceutical standards are published by SDOs such as NSF, ISO, PDA, ASTM and others. They cover a wide variety of topics pertaining to pharmaceutical and drug manufacturing as well as best practices. A wide variety of standards from ASTM cover the manufacturing side of not only the drugs themselves, but also the medical devices that are required to administer specific life-saving drugs. The main standard on this topic is ASTM E2500-20, the Standard Guide for Specification, Design, and Verification of Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Systems and Equipment as well as its redline-commented version.