What Are the OECD Principles?
The basic document dealing with GLP is the OECD Principles of Good Laboratory Practice, published by the OECD’s Environment Directorate, and most recently revised in 1998. This document is produced by the OECD GLP Working Group, on which Australia is represented by NATA as the national GLP compliance monitoring authority, recognised as such by NATA’s Memorandum of Understanding with the Commonwealth Government. Some national monitoring authorities issue their own versions of the OECD Principles (e.g. USFDA, USEPA, various Japanese ministries) but the OECD Principles of GLP are the foundation of these other documents that may be issued as part of national legislation. Facilities in Australia producing data that will be presented in the US, Japan or any other OECD member country must comply with Australian requirements, not those of the receiving country. In other words, Australian facilities do not have to test to the USFDA document. The basis for the development of GLP was to provide a
