Memoranda

In the world of documents there are two categories those that are controlled and those that are not controlled. A controlled document is one where requirements have been specified for its development, approval, issue, revision, distribution, maintenance, use, storage, security, obsolescence, or disposal. You do not need to exercise control over each of these elements for a document to be designated a controlled document. Controlling documents may be limited to controlling their revision. On the other hand, you cannot control the revision of national standards but you can control their use, their storage, their obsolescence, etc. Even memoranda can become controlled documents if you impose a security classification upon them. 

Documents and data that relate to the requirements of the standard could be interpreted as including all the documents and data you produce, or be limited to those documents that are essential to the achievement and demonstration of quality. The requirement can be quite onerous because it requires that every document has an associated governing procedure. So if you include memoranda in your system, you will need a procedure to control them. The way out of this maze is to use the quality system to define the documents that need to be controlled. 

Company reports and memoranda Laboratory notebooks Company analytical methods... 

On 1st January 2000 the new regulations re-classifying isocyanates as resin components came into force. According to the new definitions TDI prepolymers with a clear TDI proportion of 1-7% must be rated as poisonous and provided with risk memoranda R23, R40 and R42/43. Clear TDI proportions of 0.1-1% must be rated as harmful... 

Raw data Any laboratory worksheets, records, memoranda, notes, or exact copies thereof, that are the result of original observations and activities of a (nonclinical laboratory) study and are necessary for the reconstruction and evaluation of the report of that study. 

All of this was past history by the time I arrived at Edgewood. Lindsey had recovered from this brief lapse of judgment and returned to his usual idiosyncratic and irreverent ways. He wrote official memoranda in a format that was decidedly not in the Style Guide for Military Authors. But, for all his quirks, the lab personnel greatly loved and respected both his eccentric style and his startling creativity. 

The documents were an incomplete subset of memoranda and reports from the MK-ULTRA program. They do include a description of some subsidiary projects, such as Bluebird, Artichoke and Derby Hat. In January, 1963 Gottlieb, at Helms direction, had already destroyed most of the other documents from the earlier CIA activities. Still others were withheld or heavily redacted. Those that remain refer to some of the experiments initiated in the 1950 s under the direction of Dr. Gottlieb. To me, they seemed scientifically imsophisticated and often done at the whim of the local agent in charge. 

In this context document could be policy statements, procedures, spedfications, calibration tables, charts, text books, posters, notices, memoranda, software, drawings, plans, etc. 

In the period intervening between its interim advice and its final report, the Joint Subcommittee received memoranda from, and met representatives of, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPl), the BMA, the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the College of General Practitioners. 

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), US Dept, of Health, Education, and Welfare Reports and Memoranda. The Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS). Acetic acid, tert-hutyX ester, RTECS AF7400000, July 2000. http //www.cdc.gov/niosh/rtecs/ af70ea40.html... 

US Department of Health, Education and Welfare Operational Memoranda on Economic Poisons, Public Health Service, pp 81-84. Atlanta, GA, Communicable Disease Center, 1956... 

As a solution to part of this problem, the FDA has developed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with Canada... 

As becomes apparent from a quick perusal of Duchamp s nearly contemporary, but considerably more hermetic memoranda, the artist s superinscribed numbers—h —refer to, respectively, the symbolically as-... 

A Proforma for application for the licences, issue and renewal of licences, for sending memoranda under the Act. 

Busch, Kenneth A. Memoranda to Deputy Director, DLCD, Dated 1/6/75, 11/8/74, Subject "Statistical Protocol for Analysis of Data from Contract CDC-99-74-45."... 

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was created by Congress in 1915 and has published well over 500 technical reports and memoranda dealing with various phases of combustion. 

Following is a list of compds, mixts, reactions which are or maybe hazardous. Where available refs to original literature or to CA should be consulted for further details. This list cover the period 1937-57 for the most part. No attempt has been made at completeness nor were sources other than open literature searched. Only those compds, mixts or reactions believed to be of general interest to workers in expls and related items are included. A thorough search of the literature should always be made before preparing or working with any chemical or special mixt which may be hazardous. This list is based principally on the report of Rochlin and of memoranda of W.R.Tomlinson, Jr (now deceased) who was formerly Chief, Explosives Research Section, PicnArsn(See Ref 117)... 

Previously, there were memoranda of understanding (MoU) on GMP inspections concerning the U.S. FDA and Sweden, Switzerland, and Canada. These are on hold after FDA decided that most foreign audit programs did not meet U.S. regulatory standards. 

The term raw data means laboratory or field worksheets, records, notes, or memoranda that are the result of observations, measurements or other activities which contribute significantly to the conclusions drawn from the testing or evaluation of a pesticide for purposes of registration. ... 

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