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    5 Effective Quality Audit Tools and Tips

    Regularly auditing your quality management system is vital to maintain performance as well as compliance. Internal audits are an integral part of fulfilling global standard requirements, including those set forth by regulatory bodies like ISO, FDA, and ICH. Discover five tips that you can use for any type of audit you need to perform. Look here for the tools that can help you overcome the challenges of auditing and turn your findings into fixes.

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    Improving Quality Through Supplier Audits

    Supplier audits are the cleverly disguised exams of the manufacturing world. Suppliers and manufacturers are held to high quality standards and both must adhere to them to ensure final products are safe and effective. The key to this is a thorough supplier audit in which the supplier and manufacturer work together to improve quality throughout the supply chain.

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    3 Tips to Conduct Remote GxP Audits Successfully

    The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented challenges for quality and compliance professionals in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries. Staying on course toward product approval and audit schedules is dependent on maintaining a robust compliance roadmap, which includes sponsoring GxP audits.

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    Medical Device Suppliers Offer Shared Supplier Audits to Save Time and Reduce Exposure

    Last year brough a lot of changes to audits. In addition to remote audits, MedTech suppliers are learning the value of shared audit to be beneficial in working down the backlog of audit requests while reducing exposure in the plant.

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    3 Challenges that Bill of Materials Software Can Help Resolve

    A bill of materials (BOM) is crucial for ensuring a complete and accurate view of product parts and for protecting and analyzing the use of resources throughout the life cycle of a product. Any revision to a product’s design must be updated in the BOM, accurately identifying and listing what is required to produce the product. Because it extends to a variety of departments, BOM management often results in a number of common challenges for manufacturers.

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    How to Increase the Value of Your Supplier Audits

    A manufacturer’s ability to maintain high-quality products and regulatory compliance depends largely on its suppliers’ own quality-related activities. Leveraged correctly, supplier audits can be an important tool that gives manufacturers greater visibility into these activities, according to Quality Support Group CEO Angelo Scangas.

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    Avoid FDA Audit Findings on Your Device by Performing Process Validation

    Medical device makers could save themselves time and heartache in reducing the number of regulatory findings when it comes to the FDA’s CFR Part 820 quality system regulations and ISO 13485. How? By understanding the benefits you get by fully implementing process validation to achieve higher levels of compliance.

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    MDSAP: Guiding Your Company Through the Audit Process

    Now that you understand what the Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP) is and how it can benefit your medtech company, learn more about MDSAP’s audit process and how to successfully steer your company through the specifics of the journey. This is Part 2 of a three-part blog series about MDSAP.

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    Proving the Effectiveness of Mock FDA Audits

    A mock U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) audit can be conducted by an internal team of employees qualified by experience in regulatory compliance or by an external team with previous FDA work experience. Incorporating routine mock FDA audits can help your organization prepare for a FDA audit as well as reduce the number of audit observations and repeat observations received from regulatory authorities.

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    Coping with Scoping a CSV Audit

    You use computers on a daily basis, and you may even use the system that needs to be audited. But you don’t spend your day thinking about where all the system components are located, how services and software are combined, and what Part 11 requirements apply.

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  • Supplier Approval Challenges Under FSMA

    As a food safety and regulatory consultant, I work with diverse clients who face many different challenges with Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) implementation. The ones that are the hardest to address fall into the intersection between company policy and regulatory requirements. Supply-chain approval is a major challenge for many larger corporate clients, as well as smaller clients who must remain flexible to maintain profitability. The requirements of the Foreign Supplier Verification Prog

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  • What Does Risk-Based Monitoring Mean for QA Auditing?

    By now, we all know that risk-based monitoring (RBM) isn’t just about changing the role of the clinical research associate (CRA); it’s transforming the way clinical studies are managed. So what does that mean for quality assurance (QA) teams who audit these new processes? Polaris president Celine Clive led a roundtable discussion about RBM and its implications for auditing at November’s North Carolina Regulatory Affairs Forum (NCRAF) meeting.

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    What Does 'Readily Available' Mean?

    If you're familiar with 21 CFR Part 11 documentation, you're likely acquainted with compliance audits, electronic record integrity and approval processes. However, you may wonder what the term "readily available" means or what "instantly" refers to in the same context. According to Labcompliance News1, it's these phrases that keep regulated companies guessing.

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