Failure to validate, for its intended use, computers or automated data processing systems used as part of production or the quality system, as required by 21 CFR 820.70(i). For example, your firm has not validated the software used for generating product labels.
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The [redacted] Calibration Management software has not been validated as required by 21 CFR 820.70(i). This software is used to maintain equipment calibration records and calibration procedures. This same observation was made during the previous inspection of July 2006.
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In addition, FDA noted nonconformance with regards to section 501(h) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. 351(h), due to deficiencies of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) requirements of the Quality System (QS) regulation found at 21 C.F.R. Part at 21 C.F.R. Part 820. These deviations include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Your firm failed to check the accuracy of the input to and output from the computer or related systems of formulas or other records or data and establish the degree and frequency of input/output verifications. For example, the performance qualification of your [redacted] system software (Validation No. 4000-03-PQ-0002) failed to include verification of the expiration date calculations in the [redacted] system. In addition, there is no established degree and frequency of performing the verification. Discrepancy reports have documented that product labeling with incorrect expiration dates have been created and issued for use.
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Failure to maintain a design history file for the “Defender” air filtration system, as required by 21 CFR § 820.300). Specifically, your firm could not locate the design inputs, outputs, verification and validation documents, design reviews and design changes for the “Defender”.
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Your firm’s Corrective and Preventive Action Practice form does not specify that you will verify or validate the corrective and preventive action to ensure that such action is effective and does not adversely affect the finished device as required by 21 CFR § 820.100(a)(4). For example, your firm needs to perform effectiveness checks in order to verify that the corrective and preventive actions were effective as to the intended purpose of the action and that new issues or concerns are not introduced.
Failure to establish and maintain procedures for the identification, documentation, validation or where appropriate verification, review, and approval of design changes before their implementation as required by 21 CFR § 820.30(i). Specifically, your firm has failed to establish and maintain design control procedures for the design changes that were made to your devices during the months of May and June of 2009.
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Design validation failed to include testing of production units under actual or simulated use conditions as required by 21 C.F.R. 820.30(g). For example, the MedStar System design history records do not include documentation to demonstrate that the physiological data (e.g. blood pressure and heart rate readings) obtained from the patient is the identical data transmitted from the MedStar Collection Server.
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Your firm has not exercised appropriate controls over computer or related systems to assure that changes in master production and control records or other records are instituted only by authorized personnel [21 CFR 211.68(b)].
For example, your firm lacks systems to ensure that all electronic data generated in your Quality Control laboratory is secure and remains unaltered. All analysts have system administrator privileges that allow them to modify, overwrite, and delete original raw data files on the [redacted] used [redacted] in the High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) units. There are no procedures that address the security measures in place for generation and modification of electronic data files for these instruments used for raw material, in-process, finished product and stability testing. In addition, your firm’s review of laboratory data does not include a review of an audit trail or revision history to determine if unapproved changes have been made.
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You have failed to validate computer software for its intended use according to an established protocol, when computers or automated data processing systems are used as part of the production or the quality system, as required by 21 CFR 820.70(i). Specifically, there is no record of validation for software in the [redacted] which is used to make components for the aspirating dental injection syringes.
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Failure to validate computer software for its intended use according to an established protocol, as required by 21 CFR 820.70(i). For example, your firm uses off-the-shelf software that generates the labels for the dental alloys. The off-the-shelf software has not been validated for this use.
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