Quality Compliance

The Nine Gate Transfer Process for Moving Production from Site to Site: Gate 1

Pharmaceutical news today featured another article about a manufacturing plant closure and the layoff of a thousand employees. Demand for pharmaceutical products continues to grow and will continue...

Quality & Compliance

Government Aims its Sights on Smaller Pharmaceutical Companies

Big pharma and their deep pockets have been the focus of enforcement activities for a number of years but in 2013 that tide may be turning. In the past few months, settlements with ISTA...

Quality & Compliance

Lean CSV – How to Reduce Waste and Increase Value

What is lean? Lean is a business system focused on continuously improving processes by reducing the time taken and the waste involved in delivering increasing value to the customer. Customers in this...

Quality & Compliance

Risk-Based Computer System Validation and Rational Testing

Risk based approaches to validation of computerized systems have been heavily promoted since the publication of GAMP 5 and ASTM E2500. Yet we continue to see examples of validation overkill in the...

Three Key Steps to Conducting a Strong Investigation

Unexpected events often happen in the everyday world. However, in the regulated world great efforts are made to minimize the severity and frequency of unexpected events. Yet, despite best efforts,...