In drug development and production, good clinical practice is an international quality standard, which governments can then transpose into regulations for clinical trials involving human subjects.

Current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) are those conforming to the guidelines recommended by relevant agencies.

The Principles of Good Laboratory Practice establish rules and criteria for a quality system that oversees the organizational processes and conditions in which non-clinical health and environmental safety studies are planned, conducted, monitored, recorded, reported, and archived.

(recommended to abbreviate as GDocP to distinguish from "good distribution practice" also abbreviated GDP) a term in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries to describe standards by which documents are created and maintained.

both a technical subcommittee of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering and a set of guidelines for manufacturers and users of automated systems in the pharmaceutical industry.

a certification system for agriculture, specifying procedures (and attendant documentation) that must be implemented to create food for consumers or further processing that is safe and wholesome, using sustainable methods.