“…Therefore, the QbD approach is more proactive and refers to a systematic process compared to the mainly empirical methodologies used earlier (Beg, S. et al, 2015, Shah, B. et al, 2015, Xu, X. et al, 2011Xu, X. et al, 2012, Kan, S. et al, 2014, Wang, J. et al, 2015, Kovacs, A et al, 2016. Risk assessment and the Design of Experiments (DoE) techniques within the risk assessment process are key elements of QbD methodology (Fig.1).…”