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  • Glossary item | Last updated: 03 Feb 2021
Good Manufacturing Practice

Good manufacturing practice (GMP) means those aspects of quality assurance which ensure that materials and articles are consistently produced and controlled to ensure conformity with the rules applicable to them and with the quality standards appropriate to their intended use by not endangering human health or causing an unacceptable change in the composition of the food or causing a deterioration in the organoleptic characteristics thereof.