In pharmaceutical field, quality is a reflection of following documentary rules and laws such as optimal methods of production, analysis, storage and distribution of pharmaceutical distribution. GXP is the optimal or desirable methods of production that are used to increase the quality and insurance of the efficiency of pharmaceutical products. Development of the health level of the society, reducing losses, costs and preventing from probable risks of production and increasing the control and quality insurance are considered some of the advantages of applying GXP. GDP (Good Documentation Practice) can be considered one of the important principles of GXP.

Ensuring medicine quality is the most important responsibility of pharmaceutical companies. Tests that are conducted on final products do not ensure medicine quality per se. Therefore, GXP and obeying its conditions and rules is significant. GXP includes a set of rules, codes and guidelines that are used to create medicine and are in fact the basis and fundaments of security systems of medicine production and risk analysis system. Focusing on GXP principles allows pharmaceutical companies to control and properly perform production and control processes in all cases. Entering global markets and medicine exports is not possible without following GXP rules. Pharmaceutical companies are responsible for the following items:

    Accurate documentation, recording and maintaining documents
    Accurate performance of documents in all stages and implementing the processes
    Increasing organizational knowledge and improving product quality