Assuming a validated process will normally contain both validated steps, critical and unvalidated steps, would it not be correct to define reprocessing in terms of the validated process?

No. We did not define reprocessing or even reworking within the context of a validated process
because sometimes companies may want to reprocess or revalidate material produced by a noncritical
process step, which Q7A doesn’t expect validation. That’s why we had to define both
terms within the context of established process.