Quality Assurance Department

Quality Assurance Departments are often formed to provide both customer and management with confidence that quality will be, is being, and has been achieved. However, another way of looking upon Quality Assurance Departments is as Corporate Quality Control. Instead of measuring the quality of products, they are measuring the quality of the business and by doing so are able to assure management and customers of the quality of products and services. 

Specification Limits) allows (vertical) dashed lines to be added to illustrate the Accept/Reject decision points that the Quality Assurance Department uses in product release. 

The product development department and/or quality assurance department prove and document that the products manufactured in the runs described above have the specified quality. 

What the Quality Assurance department really wants is to be able to represent a spec in code so that it can be run as a test harness. They want to be able to write one set of invariants, postconditions, and so on that every candidate implementation can be tested against. As far as they are concerned, the spec writer writes a spec and associated test assertions. Each hopeful designer must supply two things the design plus a set of abstractions that enable the test assertions to execute. 

The quality assurance department is responsible for providing support to the parent company, affiliates, and contract manufacturers in the development, upgrading, and maintenance of GMP requirements. Validation SOPs is required to give step-by-step direction in performing validation. 

The area can only be released for use upon approval of the Quality Assurance Department. 

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Finally, the departments responsible for the qualification and validation work should approve the completed report and the conclusion of the report should state if the outcome of the qualification and/or validation was considered successful. The final review is performed by the quality assurance department, which gives the approval of the report according to the company s quality assurance system [1]. 

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Quality planning is performed by the quality assurance department to fully meet specified requirements. Procedures and instructions for quality are kept current to conform to specified requirements. 

The [purchasing] and [quality assurance departments] ensure that purchased products conform to specihed requirements. 

The quality assurance department is assigned the management of verification of product quality. 

The management believes in the effectiveness of a quality assurance system based on complying with the provisions of ISO 9003 and our principle of continual progress through defect prevention and improvement. This system is managed by our quality assurance department, whose role is to implement and maintain a structure and control its evolution in order to ... 

Note-. V = validation department QA = quality assurance department P = production department or unit E = engineering department. 

Once the retesting protocol is executed successfully (i.e., no analytical deviations), the results will either support the OOS result and confirm a material failure or render the OOS result invalid and provide ample justification to pass the test specifications. If the OOS result is confirmed, the batch is rejected and the quality assurance department should take appropriate steps for batch disposal. Since confirmation of the OOS result strongly suggests an operator-related or process-related error, the onus is now placed on the formal or phase II investigation participants to identify a cause. If an operator-related error is found and batch rework is possible and prescribed in an approved batch record and approved regulatory submission, this may be the desired course of action. If no rework or reprocessing is possible, the batch is rejected and disposed of in an acceptable manner. 

Once the investigation has concluded, a written laboratory (for laboratory-generated errors) or formal investigation report should be prepared, reviewed, and approved by the proper disciplines. The final approval is usually relegated to the quality assurance department, but should at least be reviewed by all investigation participants for accuracy and completeness. The report should include, as a minimum, the following details ... 

The firm failed to install a mature and comprehensive quality assurance department. ... 

In this day and age any company that attempts to operate an FDA-regulated facility without a fully operational quality assurance department is asking for severe regulatory actions by the agency. There is no justification for even the smallest FDA-regulated firm to operate without some degree of quality assurance and quality control. Not only is this a regulatory requirement, it is smart business sense. 

Quality assurance departments that demonstrate a history of effectiveness within the corporate culture and foster loyalty among their peers are usually known for fairness, constructive approach, cooperative attitude and informative style. 

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