Quality assurance —risk analysis

The SST was empowered by plant management and had members from every discipline involved in the shipping and handling of monomers at the plant shipping, pumping, production, quality assurance, process chemistry, chemical engineering, and safety/risk analysis. Consequently, it was not difficult to obtain cooperation when requests were made of various entities. 

Dewalt, G., P. Constant, B.E. Buxton, S.W. Rust, B.S. Lim and J.G. Schwemberger (1995). Sampling and analysis of lead in dust and soil for the Comprehensive Abatement Performance Study (CAPS), in Lead in Paint, Soil and Dust Health Risks, Exposure Studies, Measurement Methods and Quality Assurance, M.E. Beard and A.S.D. Iske (Eds), American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohoken, PA, USA, STP 1226, pp. 227-248. 

Sampling/Analysis Checklist. This module of Risk Assistant, developed specifically for the review of Superfund risk assessments, prompts the user to consider key issues in quality assurance and quality control for sampling conducted at a waste site. It provides a concise summary of whether the standards developed under EPA s Superfund program have been met. 

Because of the risk of analytical errors, it is crucial that every laboratory runs and reports a quality assurance program (cf. Friberg, 1988). This should include both internal and external quality control. The internal quality control procedure should include, in each analytical series, a sufficient number of samples with the same matrix as the study samples, and with a relevant mercury concentration. The results obtained are compared with pre-defined levels of acceptability. The external quality control may be assessed by inter-laboratory exchange of samples with (to the iaboratory) unknown concentrations, and by analysis of reference samples with well-defined levels. 

Risk 2004 (final) 2003 WHO A framework for innovative pharmaceutical manufacture and quality assurance Application of hazard analysis... 

Quality Assurance Quality Control Quantitative Risk Analysis... 

Analytical methodology was developed for accurate quantitative analysis of trichothecenes at low part-per-billion levels in blood. Although this methodology was arduous and lacked the ruggedness normally demanded of an analytical procedure which must nave a low failure rates it proved to be both qualitatively reliable and quantitatively accurate when it was combined with a well planned quality assurance program. An indispensable part of developing the quality assurance plan was a formal risk assessment which specifically took into account the possibility of human error. 

The report does say that quality assurance (QA) engineers performed a risk analysis, but they considered only those problems that had happened before Their risk analysis was not based on determining steps critical to mission success, but on how often problems previously surfaced in particular areas on past launches. They determined software constant generation was low risk... 

Traditional focus on quality assurance and quality improvement vs. formal risk analysis... 

Food Control. 1990-. Amsterdam Elsevier (0956-7135). Online ScienceDirect. Covers research in all aspects of food safety, such as microbial food safety and antimicrobial systems, mycotoxins, hazard analysis, HACCP and food safety objectives, risk assessment, including microbial risk assessment, quality assurance and control, food packaging and rapid methods of analysis and detection, including sensor technology. 

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