Hello good people of the world! What are the overarching tenets that you go to when making decisions related to your validation program? The regulations and guidance from industry only go so far and you will be regularly tasked with situations unique to your program. How do you know what is the right way to go in the grey areas? I like to keep these tenets in mind:
- The manufacturing process should be the most complex process on the site. Reduce complexity everywhere else. Reduce the number of deliverables. Reduce the number of process steps.
- Requirements feed specifications feed test protocols. Remember that you should always be able to trace a test case to a requirement through the specifications.
- Compliance is not binary, you are accepting degrees of regulatory risk. Make sure you understand the risk and that you accept it.
- Good Manufacturing Practices are not just from the CFRs. World-wide best practices need to be considered and applied where applicable.
- It’s all about documentation. If it’s not documented it didn’t happen. Create a logical narrative, and you’re already mostly there.
- Our primary purpose is to create documentation for agencies. Take any kind of writing class, and one of the first things you’ll learn is: know who your audience is and write for them. While it’s great the validation documentation can be used for commissioning, process improvement, etc. that must not come at the cost of it’s primary purpose.
What are some of your go-to tenets? Comment below.
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