Pharma Inspection Question & Answer Part 01

Data Integrity App


Question 1: 
Do you have policies and procedures that specify how staff is given access to computer systems?

Best Answer:  The process for granting, changing, and removing access should be governed by a discrete procedure. Access to certain systems should be governed according to job function.
 
Question 2: 
Are individual login and passwords required to access computer systems?

Best Answer:   This is crucial for ensuring that the activity performed can be attributed to an individual. Never share any login credentials or passwords.
 
 
Question 3
Does your software control actions through access privilege levels?

Best Answer: Activities within the system should be governed by job function and those who create records should have very limited or no ability to modify or delete them. Make sure to maintain and update lists showing who has particular access privileges for each system.
 
 
Question 4
What are the training requirements for personnel ?

Best Answer:  Employee having the education, training, experience and skills or any combination of these elements that will ensure that staff can perform assigned duties and functions at an acceptable level.

Training and assessment should be carried out by persons with relevant training, qualifications and experience in the subject matter and training personnel should preferably have been formally qualified in training and assessment.

There are a number of people who have a direct bearing on quality outcomes. These include contractors, consultants and casual employees. Therefore, appropriate training and assessment should be provided and recorded.

Question 5: 
Are date and time featured secured so they cannot be changed by those who perform, supervise, or review records?
Best Answer: When individuals are able to change date and time stamps, it's not possible to ensure that activities were conducted at the date and times indicated – compromising the integrity of the data. These features should be controlled at the network level.
 
 
Question 6:  
Is the identity of the person performing an activity captured by the audit trail?

Best Answer: This requires unique login credentials and ensures firms and regulatory investigators know who, in particular, performed an action. Logging in, acquiring data, processing data, modifying data, deleting data, reporting results or reviewing data are all activities that require audit trails capture individual performers.
 

Question 7:    
Are your audit trails capable of documenting why an action was performed?

Best Answer: Selecting from a pre-written list of possible justifications can leave out important details needed when explaining why a particular action was taken.To ensure completeness and specificity, make this field a free text field for users to write their own justifications. Be sure all users are trained on how to provide a clear and complete justification.
 
Question 8: 
Can data be obscured or deleted when certain operations are performed?

Best Answer: Sometimes this can happen and not be immediately apparent. When samples are retested, for example, the original results should always remain available to ensure everything can be reviewed and that your quality unit is considering all data when making lot disposition decisions.

If data is overwritten, erased, or obscured, records associated with an activity cannot be fully reviewed.
 
 
Question 9:     
Is the data being reviewed in the same format in which is generated?

Best Answer:  Most instrument data is reviewed in an electronic format and supplement by log books and other sources. GMP decisions should never be based on printouts of chromatograms or other documents that are used for convenience. When these documents are used, they should include the path to the original electronic data.
 

Question 10:   
Is it acceptable to shred GMP related documents? You shred any GxP Documents?
 
Best Answer:  Once a document has reached its archive expiration date (e.g. one year after the product expiration date or seven years from production of the batch or whatever is in your company’s SOP) you can shred the document PROVIDED (at least in the EU GMPS, chapter 4) that document does not contain data submitted in the marketing application. In that case, you need to keep it forever.
 

“Trust but Verify “ Ronald Reagan

 

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Data Integrity App

Our Data integrity app will helpful for understanding what Data integrity & CSV really means & How 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11 & other regulatory guidelines affects in pharmaceutical Industry.

 

Data Integrity App Include 

- Basic Data Integrity Concepts

- ERES & Its Requirement

- CSV & Its best practices 

- Mock Inspection and General Q&A

- Checklist for inspection

- Inspection Readiness

- Useful SOP’s

- Stay Regulatory Compliant.

 

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