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    5 Key Questions About Quality Agreements

    Quality agreements between organizations and contract manufacturing organizations (CMO), particularly in pharma, can be crucial to increasing ROI for a manufacturer. But there is a right way and a wrong way to approach quality agreements. Learn some best practices on how to produce more efficient and effective quality agreements.

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    Making Sense of LIMS, QMS, GMP and Other ERP Acronyms for Life Sciences

    Acronyms can look more like alphabet soup, but here is your cheat sheet to understand some of the most common ones used in life sciences manufacturing: LIMS, QMS, GMP and ERP.

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    Leveraging GAMP 5 Compliance for Risk-Based Software Validation

    In a life sciences industry that highly values risk reduction, Good Automated Manufacturing Practices (GAMP) principles offer key insights on computer validation. GAMP 5 offers companies guidelines that can help ensure greater computer system compliance that reduces risk.

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    How to Gain Entry to Latin America’s Medtech Market

    Don’t get bit by piranhas and crocodiles when entering Latin America’s lucrative $31 billion medical device manufacturing industry. Learn from a pro the tips, strategies and trends you’ll need to be successful in the golden medtech market in North and South America.

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    Using an Integrated QMS to Qualify Your Suppliers

    Adulterated supplements and adverse events have long been the bane of the nutraceutical industry. However, this shouldn’t and doesn’t have to be the norm. By qualifying suppliers or ingredients, nutraceutical companies not only comply with CGMPs, they also protect their customers.

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    Regulatory Barriers to Innovation for Startups

    France and Europe are witnessing an explosion of life science innovation from new startups. But what separates the winners from the losers? Learn how to successfully overcome regulatory barriers and get your product to market quicker.

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    Best Practices for Supplier Evaluation and Rationalization

    Pharmaceutical companies continuing the trend of mergers, acquisition and partnerships is creating challenges, opportunities and redundancies for supplier management. To meet these changing needs, it’s imperative that managers conduct supplier evaluation and rationalization processes and emphasize “good supply practices.” Learn some of these best practices and how to adapt them to your company.

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    The Link Between Regulation, Quality Systems and Data Integrity, Part 2

    An examination of how the evolving standards of data integrity are affecting regulations and quality considerations within life science industries worldwide.

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  • Brave New World: The Mutual Recognition of CGMP Inspections

    Last week, the United States and the European Union agreed to recognize each other’s drug cGMP inspections. The agreement reached (see

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  • Three Keys to Successful FDA Inspections – Preparation, Management and Follow Up

    Successfully completing a FDA inspection is critical to cGMP operations and commercial success. Implementing and maintaining robust quality systems is one element to accomplishing this goal. However, it is not the only element. Inspection preparation and management is another, equally important element to ensure a successful outcome. In fact, proper Inspection management techniques can help mitigate the risk of receiving an observation for compliance gaps. This article will provide insight on understanding the inspector, discuss how to prepare for and manage the actual Inspection, describe follow-up activities required for close-out, as well as describe real-life lessons learned.

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  • Understanding the Relationship between GMPs and Adulteration

    Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPS or cGMPS) are a bit of a misnomer. The name implies the practices only apply to manufacturers, but the limitation is in name only. It suggests a rigid system of procedures more suitable for multinational corporations than start-ups, mid-size companies, or importers.

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