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Upcoming Events
 
AAVLD 52nd Annual Conference
Town & Country Resort, San Diego, California
October 8-11, 2009 
 
aavldQuality Systems Integrators (QSI) will be participating and exhibiting at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians.  Marti Turocy, of QSI, will be presenting "TMSWeb Document & Training Management" on October 8th at 4:30 pm. 
 
QSI is exhibiting at Booth # 104. Please stop by to learn more about our quality and compliance management software products.
 
 
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International Conference on ISO 9000                   Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando, Florida
March 14-16, 2010 
                                   
ISO9000
For nearly two decades,  the International Conference on ISO 9000 continues to be the world's leading conference on the ISO 9000 and related standards.
 
The 2010 conference will give you the tools and knowledge to navigate in these turbulent times.  These profitable strategies  integrate international standards, management systems, core competencies, risk management, measurement systems, communication, leadership and originality.   
 
In This Issue
Upcoming Events
Quality Quote
Quick Links
FDA Strategy for Enforcement
Making the Transition to an E-System (Part 2)
Quality Quote
 
"Quality is conformance to requirements".
 
                              by Crosby  
Quick Links
Quality Systems Integrators
- Software Solutions for Quality and Regulatory Compliance 
 
American Management Association Complimentary Webcasts in September!
 
PharmaManufacturing.com 
- States are funding enhanced biopharmaceutical manufacturing workforce training.  See article.
 
New FDA Strategy for Enforcement
 
fdaThe US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, has outlined her plan to improve the effectiveness and timeliness of the FDA's regulatory and enforcement system.
 
"An effective enforcement strategy depends on several key elements.  The FDA must be vigilant, the FDA must be strategic, the FDA must be quick, and the FDA must be visible," Commissioner Hamburg said in an address before the Food and Drug Law Institute in Washington, D.C.  "We must get the word out that the FDA is on the job."
 
In her speech, the Commissioner outlined the following steps designed to improve FDA's enforcement efforts:
  • Set post-inspection deadlines
  • Take responsible steps to speed the warning letter process
  • Work more closely with FDA's regulatory partners
  • Prioritize follow-up on warning letters and other enforcement actions
  • Be prepared to take immediate action in response to public health risks
  • Develop and implement a formal warning letter "close-out" process
By taking these steps, Commissioner Hamburg said, the FDA will ensure that "violative inspection results are taken seriously, that warning letters and enforcement actions occur in a timely manner and that steps are taken to protect consumers in cases where immediate enforcement action is not possible."
 
 
Making the Transition to an E-System (Part 2)
 
man at computerThis is the second part of a 2-part article
by Janet Gough, Consultant and Author
 
Once an electronic system has gone through the validation process and is in production, users can access it to initiate, review, and approve documents in accord with the SOPs against which they have undergone training. The validation process will have set specifications for the system based on the user requirements, so the system will be able to accommodate all the documents the system has been built to hold and to identify users by passwords linked to the user's names.  
 
The first step in creating a new document in a new system is to ascertain whether the document is actually needed. A brand new system is not searchable, so initial determination for a document needs to be based on the former system.  If a document is necessary, reviewers confirm within the new system, and the author can begin to prepare a document. Typically, system administrators make templates available to authors so that they can generate a new document.
 
To make the system fully usable and searchable for the categories of documents the system will ultimately house, legacy documents must also come into the system.  There are a few approaches for building the document repository in an electronic system.
 
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