No approval signatures and dates were documented for the Validation Report , [redacted]. The only approval signatures that were documented were that of the [redacted] and [redacted] from Isotron Ireland. 6. Failure to adequately establish and maintain procedures to control all documents to assure that all documents meet the requirements of this part. Those documents should include the signature of the individual(s) approving the documents and shall be documented, as required by 21 CFR 820.40(a).
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Your firm failed to establish and maintain adequate procedures to control design validation , including software validation and risk analysis, where appropriate, as required by 21 CFR 820.30(g). For example: a. Because you failed to follow your procedure, the acceptance criteria were not complete prior to the performance of validation activities. Specifically, [redacted] for ECAT scanners introduced an error in the scan start time used in the decay correction algorithm. This error was most pronounced in the TTTT/EEEE mode which was not tested during the validation of the software update.
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Failure to establish procedures for identifying training needs, ensure that all personnel are trained to adequately perform their assigned responsibilities, and document training, as required by 21 CFR 820.25(b). For example: “a. Training records for a sterilizer operator and packager were requested at your Asheboro, NC, facility during the 2007 FDA inspection. Out of five (5) training records requested for the sterilizer operator, only two (2) were available. Two (2) training records were requested for the packager and only one (1) record was available.” “b. A number of documents were collected demonstrating that employees were not adequately trained, at your [redacted] facility.
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Failure to indicate the reason for change in automated data entries [21 CFR 58.130(e)]. In several instances, entries in the [redacted] collection/notes and audit trails failed to provide the reason for changing raw data. For example, audit trail entries for study [redacted]demonstrate that observations of “normal” were removed without an explanation.
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