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Six Best Practices for Alcoa Data Integrity

Nov 16, 2023 10:00:00 AM | Learn about the significance of ALCOA+ in maintaining data integrity in the pharma industry and best practices for implementing ALCOA+ principles.

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Six Best Practices for Alcoa Data Integrity

Learn about the significance of ALCOA+ in maintaining data integrity in the pharma industry and best practices for implementing ALCOA+ principles.

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What is FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance?

Learn about FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance and the regulatory requirements for electronic records and signatures in the life sciences industry.

FDA Warning Letters Expose the Risks of Using Paper Logbooks

Examples from real FDA warning letters show the risks and consequences of using paper logbooks and why a digital logbook management solution is essential. 

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What Is Paperless Validation All About?

In this post, we'll explore the transition to paperless validation and the benefits it brings such as efficiency, cost reduction, and compliance assurance.

Risk-based CSA Validation: Ensuring the Least Burdensome Approach

The post summarizes the key principles of CSA, various testing methodologies, risk management, and the benefits of digital software validation tools.

How to Overcome the Subjectivity of Objective Evidence in FDA Audits

How do we deliver objective evidence with a high degree of certainty it will withstand regulatory scrutiny? Technology tools like a VLMS hold the answer.

Saving Time and Resources with CSA

In this blog post, we will explore how making your transition from the traditional CSV to the new CSA approach can save you time and resources.

How Spreadsheets Create Compliance Risks: An Auditor's Perspective

Spreadsheet tools like Excel raise a regulatory red flag and can trigger an audit. Your best defense is a validation lifecycle management system (VLMS).

Digital checklist with checkmark indicating validated requirements and CSA/CSV compliance readiness.

Requirements Management 101: Tips for Writing Good Requirements

Learn how to write clear, defensible requirements and use Agile methodology and structured qualifiers to strengthen traceability in CSV and CSA.

Your Guide to Computer Software Assurance (CSA)

Is CSA the new CSV? Not exactly. Here's your comprehensive guide to computer software assurance, the FDA's new framework for validating software systems.

FDAs Computer Software Assurance (CSA) – Part 3 of 3

The efficiencies gained, according to ValGenesis customers, range from 50% to 80% improvements. This lessens demand and allows more time to be focused on higher priority tasks. Knowing the ValGenesis VLMS ensures controls and standards are followed, according to customer-specific requirements, stakeholders are given a high-degree of assurance that Quality is ingrained in the process.

Computer Software Assurance (CSA): What Are Assurance Needs?

Understand the importance of assurance needs in the FDA’s Computer Software Assurance (CSA) approach and how to implement risk-based validation activities.

FDA's Computer Software Assurance (CSA) – Part 1 of 3

Traditional computer software validation (CSV) focuses on documentation. Computer software assurance (CSA) focuses on critical thinking.

FDAs Computer Software Assurance (CSA) – Part 2 of 3

Changing mindsets from compliance-centric to quality-focused isn’t easy. It’s possibly the most difficult change to make, but it’s necessary for a quality culture to take hold.

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The Business and Buzz of IoT in Validation

Unlock the potential of IoT in validation and manufacturing to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve product quality across pharmaceutical operations.

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Finding the Root Cause in mAB Production: a ValGenesis Story

Quality Risk Management

Finding the Root Cause in mAB Production: a ValGenesis Story

Learn how we helped a customer find the root cause of a problem in monoclonal antibody (mAB) production and become stronger.

Sofia Santos

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Sofia Santos

How to Accelerate Process Scale-Up With Effective Tech Transfer

Tech Transfer & Process Scale-up

How to Accelerate Process Scale-Up With Effective Tech Transfer

There's a need to accelerate pharma product development and process scale-up. Having an effective tech transfer strategy can help you.

Sofia Santos

Written by
Sofia Santos

Risk-Based Cleaning Validation: A Lifecycle Approach

Cleaning Validation

Risk-Based Cleaning Validation: A Lifecycle Approach

Explore the evolution of pharmaceutical cleaning validation from compliance-focused practices to a risk-based, lifecycle-driven approach.

Kenneth Pierce

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Kenneth Pierce

Trending Topics With ValGenesis Customers

CSV and the Shift to CSA

CSA flips the paradigm of traditional CSV to "right-size" validation processes. Learn more about the benefits and principles of the CSA approach, which encourages critical thinking and automation.

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Catalent's Journey of Continuous Improvement for CSV Excellence

Are You Aligned with FDA's Computer Software Assurance Methodology?

Cleaning Validation

Learn how digitization offers a consistent way to carry out cleaning validation lifecycle activities, ensuring your methods and procedures are risk-based and rooted in scientific evidence.

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Change Impact Assessments in ValGenesis iClean™: A Framework for Consistency

Unlocking Operational Capacity with Fully Digitalized Cleaning Validation

Pharma 4.0

Waves of new technology and thinking — IoT, AR, cloud, Agile — are transforming the very foundation of validation processes. Learn how to leverage them in a Pharma 4.0 world.

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