1 Scope
This document addresses the specification and demonstration of capability and system reliability to successfully deliver a medicinal product as part of design verification and manufacture,
utilizing empirical methods as well as modelling. This includes risk-based techniques
to establish and demonstrate the required reliability level for all disposable single
use drug delivery systems (DDSs) for which there is a single opportunity to deliver a single dose of a medicinal
product.
DDSs covered by this document include, but are not limited to:
needle-based injection systems ( ISO 11608‑1 );
needle-free injection systems ( ISO 21649 );
aerosol drug delivery systems ( ISO 20072 ).
This document does not cover:
DDSs with containers that can be replaced;
DDSs i...