Second Interlude Quality Assurance and IT

It may wondered at the lack of detailed treatment of the Quality Assurance and IT issues here. This is not to say that they lack importance, but it has already been mentioned before that for these two areas, specialists should be employed, who may be found either externally, or even within the test facility. Since it has to be avoided that the blind would be leading the blind these individuals should have extensive knowledge and expertise in these two areas, they would not need much guidance from this text. 

Suffice it to say here, that the compiling of the Quality Assurance Programme with the respective SOPs, and the validation policies and validation efforts for the IT applications should certainly be one, preferably two, steps ahead of the other implementation efforts. 

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