Glossary: m
Manufacture
All operations involved in the preparation of a medicinal product, from receipt of materials, through processing and packaging, to its completion as a finished product.
Master cell bank (MCB)
A homogeneous pool of micro-organisms or cells, that are distributed uniformly into a number of containers and stored in such a way to ensure stability, normally used to manufacture working cell banks.
Multi-product facility
A facility that manufactures, either concurrently or in campaign mode, a range of different biological medicinal substances and products and within which equipment train(s) may or may not be dedicated to specific substances or products.
