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Standard Operating Procedures

 

SOP
Qualification of Equipment

S-240

 

 

SOP
Development of User Requirement Specifications for Analytical Equipment

S-628

 

SOP
Maintenance of Equipment

S-241

 

SOP
Change Control of Equipment

S-242

 

SOP
Installation Qualification Protocol for Manufacturing Equipment

S-915

 

SOP
Change Control of Analytical Equipment

S-509

 

SOP
Qualification of Refrigerators

S-644

Includes qualification of refrigerators throughout the entire cycle: Comparing user specification with vendor specification, vendor qualification, installation, initial and ongoing testing. For refrigerators used to keep samples, chemicals, reference standards and reagents below specified temperatures.

Templates / gap analyses / checklists / case studies / examples

 

Example
User Requirement Specifications - 20 Good/Bad Examples

E-308

Examples are equipment and computer systems

 

Example
Equipment master list.

E-312

Such lists should be prepared at the beginning of a corrective action plan to bring a laboratory into compliance. It includes a column on the actual validation status and validation requirements for each instrument.

 

Example
Equipment hardware identification.

E-314

This is a must for installation qualification (IQ) documentation.

 

Example
Requirement Specifications - HPLC System

E-711-02

 

Example
Design Qualification - HPLC System

E-711-05

 

Example
Vendor assessment - HPLC System

E-711-04

 

Example
Case study HPLC Qualification

E-414

An HPLC lab with 12 HPLCs must be qualified. The case study gives examples for user requirement, functional and operational specifications. It also lists parameters and acceptance for operational qualification testing.

 

Form
Documenting testing of a balance (K-3303)

K-3303

Reference papers and presentations, private authors

Presentation
Equipment Qualification
The expectations and observations of a European inspector

P-223

Presented at the IVT Equipment Qualification Conference, Amsterdam, December 2006

 

Presentation
USP Presentation on Analytical Instrument Qualification

P-517

Horacio N. Pappa, Ph.D, from the USP Department of Standards Development gave an update on the new USP general chapter <1058>: "Analytical Instrument Qualification" at the London IVT conference: Laboratory Regulations, Controls and Compliance.

 

Journal publication
Reference Paper: Qualification of Equipment and Computerized Systems

A-264

Using examples from an analytical laboratory , this paper will guide users of equipment and computerized systems through the entire qualification process from DQ to IQ, OQ and PQ.

 

Journal publication
Qualification of High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Systems, Published in BioPharm

A-553

 

Journal publication
Equipment Qualification in Practice

A-234

published in LC/GC Magazine

 

Journal publication
Selecting Parameters and Limits for Equipment Operational Qualification

A-239

published in Accreditation and Quality Assurance

FDA regulations and official FDA Guidelines

 

Other regulations, official guidelines and recommendations from industry task forces

Industry guidance
Guidance on equipment qualification of analytical instruments: Liquid Chromatography.

H-357

The guidance has been developed by the Laboratory of the Governmental Chemist (LGC) and the UK EURACHEM.

 

Industry guidance
Guidance on equipment qualification of analytical instruments

H-356

The guidance has been developed by the Laboratory of the Governmental Chemist (LGC) and the UK EURACHEM.

Presentations, publications, interviews with FDA personnel (these are not official guidelines)

FDA Presentation
Current Issues: Laboratory Method Validation and Instrument Qualification

G-360

Powerpoint presentation from FDA's Dr. Moheb M. Nasr, Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis at CDER. Dr. Nasr starts with a statistics on Drug GMP 483's and Warning Letters: The majority of the cited deviations are related to Laboratory Systems. Dr. Nasr continues with specific recommendations for validation of HPLC procedures and the qualification of systems. He follows the 4Q lifecycle model and gives examples for DQ, IQ, OQ, and PQ. He also gives FDA's expectations on what should be included in System System suitability. The presentations ends with examples of FDA 483's and Warning Letters and with FDA's expectations on how to avoid them.

 

FDA Presentation
Validation of Computerized Liquid Chromatographic Systems,

G-362

William B. Furman and Thomas P. Layloff, Ronald F. Tetzlaff
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
This article has also been published in AOAC journal and promotes the holistic approach for the validation of computerized analytical system, where it makes sense. There are some exceptions to this approach.