The document discusses quality assurance reviews in the pharmaceutical industry. It outlines that reviews should be conducted across all departments, including manufacturing, quality control, warehousing, and more. It recommends a 3:1 ratio for intradepartmental online to offline reviews and a 1:3 ratio for interdepartmental reviews. Key areas of focus for reviews in different departments like manufacturing, warehousing, and quality control are identified. The document also provides tips for effective reviews like referring to relevant documents, increasing online reviews, training, and more. It compares the benefits of online reviews for prevention and easy remedy over offline reviews.
4. In Manufacturing Area:
General hygiene & cleanliness
Environmental conditions
Batch manufacturing / packing records
In process checks
Adherence to SOPs & procedures
Log book entries
Equipment Instrument status & calibration
validity
5. In Ware house:
General hygiene & cleanliness
Environmental conditions
Quarantine area
Sampling area
Release stores
Status labels on the containers
Adherence to SOPs & procedures
Log book entries
Equipment Instrument status & calibration validity
6. In Quality Control:
General hygiene, cleanliness & house keeping
Environmental conditions
Status labels on glass wares & instruments
Adherence to SOPs & procedures
Log book entries
Equipment Instrument status & calibration validity
Note books
Data hard copies & soft copies
7. In Quality Assurance:
Assurance of online review
wherever applicable
Document issuance
Document receipt
8. Batch manufacturing record
Batch packing record
Calibration reports & records
Notebooks
Log book entries
Data hard copies & soft copy review
9. Training needs
Training
Effectiveness of training
Minimum person to person variations of
concepts, interpretations & skills
Right person on right job
Individual efficacy
10. Always refer relevant reference documents.
Increase online review than offline.
Increase online training of the performer.
Follow relevant sops meticulously.
E.G. Good documentation practices, note
book entries, good chromatographic practices,
OOS, OOE, deviation etc.
11. Never compare more than two documents at a
time i.e. if there is a requirement to compare
single document against multiple of reference
documents then compare it only against one
document at a time
Sequentially review document for comparison
with reference, data transcription, fulfillment of
acceptance criteria & finally presentation.
12. Online review:
Can be prevented
If occurrence is
found, then can
easily be remedied
Less investigation is
required
Investigation
becomes more
effective
Offline review:
Can be remedied
Remedy may be
easy or may be
complicated
More investigation is
required
Investigation may
not be as effective
as in case of online
review