What are the 3 risk levels USP 797?
As of today, USP 797 (2008) is the currently official chapter and low, medium, or high-risk levels apply.
How many risk levels are found in USP 797?
USP 797 assigns each CSP one of five potential contamination risk levels: immediate use, low, low with 12 hours or less beyond use date (BUD), medium, high. The risk level depends on the CSPs compounding environment; its potential for microbial, chemical, and physical contamination; the nature of production of the CSP.
What are the three compounding categories?
There are 3 types of nonsterile compounding described in USP Chapter 795: simple, moderate and complex.
What is an immediate use CSP?
The immediate-use provision allows for the preparation and dispensing of compounded sterile products (CSPs) without the need to be in compliance with USP <797> requirements such as ISO Class 5 hood or isolator, facility design, environmental controls, personnel cleansing and garbing.
What is Category 2 CSP?
A Category 2 CSP is defined as: “A CSP that is assigned a BUD of greater than 12 hours at controlled room temperature or greater than 24 hours refrigerated that is compounded in accordance with all applicable requirements for Category 2 CSPs in this chapter.” The vast majority of compounding pharmacies will be …
What is CSP risk level?
The appropriate risk level—low, medium, or high—is assigned according to the corresponding probability of contaminating a CSP with (1) microbial contamination (microbial organisms, spores, and endotoxins) and (2) chemical and physical contamination (foreign chemicals and physical matter).
What is a Category 1 and Category 2 CSP?
Category 1 CSPs are compounded in an ISO 5 primary engineering control (such as a laminar-airflow workstation) that is located in a segregated compounding area. Category 2 CSPs are compounded in an ISO 5 primary engineering control that is located in an ISO 7 buffer area.
What is a Category 1 compound?
Category 1 CSPs are defined as “CSP that is assigned a BUD of 12 hours or less at controlled room temperature or 24 hours or less refrigerated that is compounded in accordance with all applicable requirements for Category 1 CSPs in this chapter.” Category 1 CSPs may be prepared in an unclassified Segregated Compounding …