Test receipt

A number of agencies (security, control room, public fire department, etc.) may be able to monitor the alarm system via direct connections. These agencies should be notified prior to a test commencing and upon completion of the test. Receipt of each alarm should be confirmed by those agencies. 

EPA. 1990b. Environmental Protection Agency. TSCA chemical testing Receipt of test data. Fed Regist 55 50055. 

Specifications for gas turbine fuels prescribe test limits that must be met by the refiner who manufactures fuel however, it is customary for fuel users to define quality control limits for fuel at the point of delivery or of custody transfer. These limits must be met by third parties who distribute and handle fuels on or near the airport. Tests on receipt at airport depots include appearance, distfllation, flash point (or vapor pressure), density, freezing point, smoke point, corrosion, existing gum, water reaction, and water separation. Tests on delivery to the aircraft include appearance, particulates, membrane color, free water, and electrical conductivity. 

Quality control is also the term used as the name of a department. In most cases Quality Control Departments perform inspection and test activities and the name derives from the authority that such departments have been given. They sort good products from bad products and authorize the release of the good products. It is also common to find that Quality Control Departments perform supplier control activities, which are called Supplier Quality Assurance or Vendor Control. In this respect they are authorized to release products from suppliers into the organization either from the supplier s premises or on receipt in the organization. 

The quality of the product or service can be verified by you on receipt using your normal inspection and test techniques. (This is the least costly of methods and usually applies where achievement of the requirements is measurable by examination of the end product.)... 

Subcontracts enable you to choose the degree of control exercised over your subcontractors. With suppliers, your choices are often limited as you have no privileges. Control over your suppliers is therefore exercised by the results of receipt inspection or subsequent inspections and tests. If your confidence in a supplier is low, you can increase the level of inspection and if high you can dispense with receipt inspection and rely on in-process controls to alert you to any deterioration in supplier performance. 

It is important that you inform the subcontractor through the contract of how the product or service will be accepted. Will it be as a result of receipt inspection at the specified destination or as a result of acceptance tests witnessed on site by your authorized representative These details need to be specified at the tendering stage so that the subcontractor can make provision in the quotation to support any of your activities on site. If you have invoked ISO 9001 in the subcontract, you are protected by clause 4.6.4.2. If you have not, you need to specify a similar provision in your subcontract, otherwise you may lose the right to reject the product later. There is no requirement for you to document your proposal to verify product at the subcontractor s premises but such a plan would indeed be a useful section in any quality plan that you produced. (See also Control of subcontractors in this chapter.)... 

The requirements pertain to your customer verifying product purchased by you either at your supplier or on your premises. Verification of purchased product is normally carried out by the supplier before or after receipt as part of the purchasing process but may also be carried out by the customer. However, due to the standard locating most of the inspection and test requirements in clause 4.10, the receipt inspection requirements are displaced. 

When customers visit your subcontractors or inspect product on receipt, they have the right to reserve judgement on the final acceptance of the product. The product is not under their direct control and they may not be able to carry out all the tests and inspec-... 

Where dimensional and functional checks are necessary, define how the receipt inspection personnel obtain the acceptance criteria and how they are to conduct the inspections and tests. 

It would be considered prudent to prohibit the premature release of product if you did not have an adequate traceability system in place. If in fact any nonconformities in a component will be detected by the end product tests, it may be worth allowing production to commence without the receipt tests being available, in which case the tests will only be confidence checks and not verification checks. If only one product is received and released prior to verification one would think that, as the requirement applies prior to verification, there is no need to positively identify the product to permit recall because you would know where it was if you found it to be nonconforming. However, the nonconformity may have been reported to you by the supplier after delivery. The standard does not stipulate when and by whom the nonconformity may have been detected. If you lose the means of determining conformity by premature release, don t release the product until you have verified it is acceptable. 

In continuous production, product is inspected by taking samples from the line which are then examined while the line continues producing product. In such cases you will need a means of holding product produced between sampling points until the results of the tests and inspections are available. You will also need a means of releasing product when the results indicate that the product is acceptable. So a Product Release Procedure or Held Product Procedure may be necessary. The standard implies, however, that if you have released product under positive recall procedures you do not need to hold product while in-process inspection and tests are performed. The reference to clause 4.10.3(a) is also ambiguous because the inspections and tests carried out in accordance with the quality plan or documented procedures may not cover those necessary to verify product on receipt into the plant. It would be wise to hold any product until you have... 

The standard requires the quality plan or documented procedures for final inspection and testing to require that all the specified inspections and tests, including those specified either on receipt of product or in-process, have been earned out and that the data meets specified requirements. 

Devices that you use for product verification at all stages in the quality loop need to be controlled and this includes devices used for inspection and test on receipt of product, in-process, and final acceptance before release to the customer. It also includes devices used during design and development for determining product characteristics and for design verification. Some characteristics cannot be determined by calculation and need to be derived by experiment. In such cases the accuracy of devices you use must be con-... 

It is recommended that whenever possible, the purchaser, upon receipt, shall test all new wire rope purchased in accordance with specifications. If a rope fails to render satisfactory service, it is impractical to retest such used rope. It is therefore required that the purchaser shall preserve at least one test specimen of all new rope purchased, length of specimen to be at least 10 ft (3.05 m), properly identified by reel number, etc. Care must be taken that no damage will result by storage of specimen. 

Sec. 211.82 Receipt and storage of untested components, drug product containers and closures. Sec. 211.84 Testing and approval or rejection of components, drug product containers and closures. 

Receipt, identification, storage, and withholding from use of components, dmg product containers, closures, and labeling, pending the appropriate sampling, testing, or examination by the... 

The movement of the test substance during the course of a Held residue study must be tracked to assure that the integrity of the test substance is maintained [40 CFR 160.185(a)(10)]. The COC can be accomplished in a number of ways. In the simplest situation, every person signs their name on a piece of paper that accompanies the test substance when they handle the test substance. Eventually the COC will list the names of all those who handled the test substance during the course of the study. Shipment, receipt, weighing, and final disposition of the test substance container must all be tracked and promptly recorded if an unbroken COC is to be present at the end of the trial. The completed COC becomes an essential part of the field residue trial record. 

The name, the type and the batch number of the test item should be supplied with the formulation. A GLP (conducted to Good Laboratory Practice) Certificate of Analysis (C of A) detailing the above and also providing confirmation of the amount of active ingredient present in the particular batch of test item to be used in the study should be detailed. This description should include the date of receipt, the amount received. 

The date of test substance shipment, lot number, date of receipt and method of shipment, and also the amount and container size, should be documented. The test substance should be stored in the appropriate manner and under the correct storage conditions. 

Receipt and storage of test substances and reference substances... 

The receipt of the test substance should be documented upon arrival at the test site. The name of the product, manufacturer, active ingredient concentration, expiration date, storage location, storage requirements, lot or batch number, the amount received, the condition at receipt, and whether the material is an emulsifiable concentrate (EC), fiowable, powder or otherwise should be noted in the research notebook. In addition, one should note the purchase date, the shipment date, and the carrier of the product. 

EPA. 1991. Twenty-seventh report of the Interagency Testing Committee to the administrator receipt of report and request for comments regarding priority list of chemicals. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Federal Register 56(44) 9534. 

Let us say the first three samples tested were collected by Lab 2 from their production facility. These samples were retained from actual production lots. An aliquot from each retained jar was removed and shipped to Lab 1 in appropriate sealed containers. METHOD B testing was started at both laboratories the day following receipt of the samples to rule out any possible aging effects. METHOD A testing was performed in Lab 1 on the following day, while the METHOD A testing in Lab 2 occurred a week later. 

Vertical audits on random samples (i.e. checks made on a sample, examining all procedures associated with its testing from receipt through to the issue of a report) have not identified any problems. 

Is each receipt of material checked Yes. The supplier once sent a cylinder of phosgene. Since then, a test is performed by the maintenance staff. In addition, the fusible plugs are inspected for evidence of leakage, before a cylinder is hooked up. 

Under 5(e), following receipt and review of a PMN EPA may order a company to develop test data "sufficient to evaluate the health and environmental effects" of the new substance. However, if the PMN submitter objects to the order (and provides sufficient grounds for that objection), the order does not take effect and EPA must obtain an injunction from a U.S. district court to impose the data requirements (and any appropriate production or use restrictions). 

The typical test (illustrated in Figure 15.7) is performed using mice, normally female CBA mice 6-10 weeks of age. Female BALB/c and ICR mice have also been used. After animal receipt, they are typically acclimated to standard laboratory husbandry conditions for 7-10 days. The usual protocol will consist of at least two groups (vehicle control and test article treated) of five mice each. They are treated on the dorsal surface of both ears with 25 pi (on each ear) of test article solution for three consecutive days. Twenty-four to forty-eight hours after the last test article exposure, the animals are given a bolus (0.25 ml) dose of [3H]thymidine (20 pCi with a specific activity of 5.0-7.0 Ci/mmol) in phosphate buffered saline via a tail vein. Five hours after the injection, the animals are euthanized by C02 asphyxiation and the auricular lymph nodes removed. 

Computers were first used in laboratories to calculate results and generate reports, often from an individual instrument. As automated analysers were developed, so the level of computerization increased and computers now play a major role in the modem laboratory. They are associated with both the analytical and organizational aspects and the term Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is often used to describe this overall function. Such systems are available that link the various operations associated with the production of a validated test result, from the receipt of the sample to the electronic transmission of the report to the initiator of the request, who may be at a site removed from the laboratory. Other uses include stock control, human resource management and budgets. 

---