Military Laboratory opens postgraduate course in GMP for Medicinal Cannabis

O Military Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Laboratory (LMPQF) will undertake a postgraduate course in GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) for the Medical Cannabis industry, in partnership with Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon (FFUL) and the Association for the Development of Teaching and Research in Microbiology (ADEIM).

The training starts next September and runs until December 14, 2019, and is intended for holders of an academic degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences or other areas of health sciences and life sciences. However, candidates who do not meet the above conditions, but whose curriculum academic, scientific or professional demonstrate adequate preparation for attending postgraduate studies.

Registration is open until the end of July and places are limited to 25 participants.
The workload is 117 hours, divided into modules to run between 20 September and 14 December, at the Military Laboratory, on Avenida Dr. Alfredo Bensaúde, Olivais-Norte, in Lisbon, on Fridays from 15:00 to 21:00 and on Saturdays from 9:00 to 12:00.

The program is directed by Rui Loureiro, University Professor at FFUL, specialist in Industrial Pharmaceuticals and member of the Board European Health Futures Forum (EHFF), with current research focused on Health Quality Management and Health Risk Management systems.

“With Law 33/2018, of July 18, the legal framework was established for the use of medicines, preparations and substances based on the cannabis plant for medicinal purposes. In this way, the entire production and development chain, from plant cultivation to its preparation and distribution, must be monitored and controlled, to ensure that all products are produced in accordance with good practices and applicable requirements, such as GMP certification. This imperative thus creates new challenges for all those involved in the pharmaceutical circuit and the present postgraduate course aims to allow practical updating to participants, as well as the projection of future developments in the cannabis sector in Portugal”, explained Rui Loureiro to CannaReporter.

The postgraduate course will have the following modules:

• Comparative regulations (national, community and extra community, Directive 2001/83/EC, Directive 2003/94/EC, …)
• GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)
• GACP (Good Agricultural and Collection Practices)
• Applicable “GxP”
• National and International Logistics
• Security of Information and Physical Technologies
• Quality Function Management Systems
• Risk Management Systems
• Facilities, equipment, materials. human resources, processes and flows
• SOP construction management and control
• Specific challenges (microbiologicals, pesticides, “heavy metals”, safety, …)
• Audits
• Pharmacovigilance, cannabis and derivatives
• Development of drugs, preparations, cannabis-based substances

The tuition fee for attending the postgraduate course is 4.225 euros (plus VAT) and the application for registration must be done through of this form until July 31, 2019.

Accepted applications will be communicated between 19 and 30 August 2019.
More information by email GxPcannabis@gmail.com.