February 2020 Blog Posts (34)

Documented Part 11 training, as with any FDA regulation, is required for staff members who have responsibilities within the scope of the regulation.

Understanding the requirements of Part 11 is critical to compliance with the regulation. Knowledge of regulatory requirements is an exercise in project management, and avoidance of non-compliance penalties.

• History and Overview
• Subpart A: General Provisions
• Subpart B: Electronic…

21 CFR part 111 ("the DS CGMP rule") requires persons who manufacture, package, label, or hold a dietary supplement to establish and follow current good manufacturing practice-the CGMPs.

This is to ensure the quality of the dietary supplement and to ensure that the dietary supplement is packaged and labeled as specified in the master manufacturing record.



This webinar will discuss basic Dietary Supplement CGMP of Part 111 and related requirements, to…

This training program will cover in detail the key elements of HPLC and UPLC method validation to ensure compliance with FDA GLP and ISO 17025 requirements.

Instrumental liquid chromatography, either as HPLC or UPLC, are common techniques in laboratories that are widely used to determine purity, the impurities, and the degradation products of pharmaceuticals.



The focus of most validation work is on the methodology, the standard operating procedure…

This training program will cover in detail the key elements of HPLC and UPLC method validation to ensure compliance with FDA GLP and ISO 17025 requirements.

Instrumental liquid chromatography, either as HPLC or UPLC, are common techniques in laboratories that are widely used to determine purity, the impurities, and the degradation products of pharmaceuticals.



The focus of most validation work is on the methodology, the standard operating procedure…

Almost every paragraph of the Quality System Regulation states that manufacturers shall "establish" procedures.

Well written SOPs that are easy to understand and follow are necessary to accomplish that objective. Excellent SOPs need more than just subject matter.



This webinar will help you to write complete, clear, unambiguous, and flexible SOPs. You will learn techniques for creating concise and easy to read SOPs that your employees can understand and will follow. Well…

CAPA, no matter how you look at it, is the heart of the quality management system. CAPA can be viewed as and is the merging of change control, continuous improvement, and complaint management.

What does the CAPA system do for the organization? CAPA not only indicates the organization's ability to respond to problems that arise but also to proactively anticipate and prevent subsequent problems from arising.



This webinar highlights the various regulations governing CAPAs, how…

The presentation will focus on FDA responses to failures in Change Management.

The presentation shall describe how FDA expects firms to establish change management, the sources of change management, the outcomes from change management, and timely outcomes. We will cover some suggestions and Do's and Dont's.

This presentation outlines the two proposed pathways through which HHS and FDA will allow for the importation of certain drugs originally intended for non-US markets.

Notably, both pathways rely on parties other than the federal government-such as states, wholesalers, pharmacists, and manufacturers-to demonstrate that eligible drugs can be imported into the US safely and with the required cost savings.

The webinar begins with an examination of the fundamental vocabulary and concepts related to metrology. Topics include: accuracy, precision, calibration, and "uncertainty ratios".

Several of the standard methods for analyzing measurement variation are then described and explained, as derived from AIAG's Measurement System Analysis reference book. The methods include: Gage R&R (ANOVA method, for 3 gages, 3 persons, 3 replicates, and 10 parts), Gage Correlation (for 3 gages), Gage…

This presentation outlines the two proposed pathways through which HHS and FDA will allow for the importation of certain drugs originally intended for non-US markets.

Notably, both pathways rely on parties other than the federal government-such as states, wholesalers, pharmacists, and manufacturers-to demonstrate that eligible drugs can be imported into the US safely and with the required cost savings.

The webinar begins with an examination of the fundamental vocabulary and concepts related to metrology. Topics include: accuracy, precision, calibration, and "uncertainty ratios".

Several of the standard methods for analyzing measurement variation are then described and explained, as derived from AIAG's Measurement System Analysis reference book. The methods include: Gage R&R (ANOVA method, for 3 gages, 3 persons, 3 replicates, and 10 parts), Gage Correlation (for 3 gages), Gage…

Regular (unencrypted) Email and Text Messaging are effective engagement and communication tools that patients like and have the right to use.

A simple 3 step HIPAA safeguard fully protects Covered Entities from violating both HIPAA and the TCPA (Telephone Consumer Protection Act) and stymies expensive TCPA class actions. Unfortunately few take advantage of the 3 step safeguard. And the Internet is awash with mis-information that can get Covered Entities into serious…

One of the most essential ingredients for employee performance, and with it, organizational success, is employee psychology. Employees that have the right frame of mind, the positive one, are the ones who succeed.

Understanding employee psychology helps organizations understand the reasons for which employees behave the way they do at the workplace, the reasons for which they react or respond to certain given situations, the factors that play in their mind when confronted with both…

Healthcare professionals endure enormous stress in the course of their daily work. Being constant witness to pain and suffering is surely the most serious downside of this highly respected profession. Apart from having to see these as part of their routine, healthcare professionals are under pressure from another quarter: that of being professional at their work to the extent that they fulfill the organization’s ROI expectations.

Having to balance the pain of having to see suffering…

One of the cornerstones of the safety standards such as ISO 14971 is risk management. The principles relating to risk management set out by these standards keep getting updated from time to time. Because of this, it is imperative for organizations that come under the purview of the ISO standards to implement and maintain safety standards that comply with the requirements set out by them.

ISO 14971’s 2019 update will be explained in a lucid manner at a webinar that is being organized…

Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) is the foundation of a robust Quality Management System (QMS). Building a compliant, effective, and solid CAPA process into the QMS is the only way by which a company's QMS can guarantee safe and effective products.

A weak CAPA process invites disastrous consequences like complaints, recalls, 483s, and Warning Letters. It is a fact that CAPA is one of the most frequently cited reasons by the FDA for issuing 483’s and Warning Letters. Moreover, a…

Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) is the foundation of a robust Quality Management System (QMS). Building a compliant, effective, and solid CAPA process into the QMS is the only way by which a company's QMS can guarantee safe and effective products.

A weak CAPA process invites disastrous consequences like complaints, recalls, 483s, and Warning Letters. It is a fact that CAPA is one of the most frequently cited reasons by the FDA for issuing 483’s and Warning Letters. Moreover, a…

Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) is the foundation of a robust Quality Management System (QMS). Building a compliant, effective, and solid CAPA process into the QMS is the only way by which a company's QMS can guarantee safe and effective products.

A weak CAPA process invites disastrous consequences like complaints, recalls, 483s, and Warning Letters. It is a fact that CAPA is one of the most frequently cited reasons by the FDA for issuing 483’s and Warning Letters. Moreover, a…

The webinar begins with a discussion of relevant regulatory requirements, as motivation for calculating "confidence/reliability". Then, some vocabulary and basic concepts are discussed.

Next, detailed descriptions are given for how to calculate confidence/reliability for data that is either pass/fail (i.e., "attribute" data), normally-distributed measurement data, non-normally distributed measurement data that can be transformed into normality, or non-normally distributed measurement…

Consumer Safety is paramount in the food industry, which an industry that is heavily regulated by domestic and international authorities such as the FDA, EPA etc.

Failing to maintain consumer safety in the food industry, is extremely costly both in human life and / or suffering and in terms of the costs for recalls, fines levied against the company responsible for the lapse in safety, and impact to the reputation of the company, which can become irrevocable.



While consumer…