International Standardization Organization concept

International Standards Organization, International Vocabulary of Metrology—Basic and General Concepts and Associated Terms (VIM), ISO/IEC Guide 99 2007, Geneva, 2007. 

Recent initiatives by global organizations such as ISO (International Organization for Standardization, www.iso.org) and ICH (International Conference on Harmonization, www.ich.org) are attempting to bring consistency in concept and standardization in definition to the QMS. In 2004, the Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-Operation Scheme (PIC/S, www.picscheme.org) issued its recommendation on Quality System Requirements for Pharmaceutical Inspectorates. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) initiated inspection surveillance approaches based upon QMS organization and is another source of definition and interpretation. 

The present guidelines supplement the WHO guide on GMP. They also incorporate some of the concepts for quality management systems as determined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). 

Assessment of the environmental impacts of products on their entire life cycle phases by the concept of Ufe cycle assessment (LCA) is becoming popular and widespread. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has earmarked two important standards pertaining to LCA smdy, ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 (ISO, 2006 ISO, 2006). According to these standards, an LCA smdy should include the following four interconnected steps/phases ... 

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