FDA Records Retention Requirements – GLP, GCP, GMP, QSR
Summary
Retaining the wrong records – or the right records for too long – is a recipe for FDA 483 observations, warning letters, civil money penalties and marketplace delays that will cost you over $8,000 a day to fix. Since 2008, more than 90% of FDA Warning Letters cite record and document problems. And if it’s not FDA, then it’s lawsuits from product liability claims and disgruntled investors. All of which will cause you to pay a lawyer $103 to review each document you … or the court … finds.
Learning points
- What the FDA expects when it comes to records retention
- How to handle regulatory conflicts between state, US and international rules
- The costly risks a firm runs with poor records management controls
- How to identify the documents to retain … and those to toss
- What to require from suppliers, employees and onsite contractors
- How to build in records retention checks in your SOPs and quality system forms
- What a cost-effective retention roadmap looks like – and how to get there
And much more
Get 11+ documents for easy & quick implementation
- Worksheet: 9 pages of required FDA records and retention times
- Checklist: Organizational records controls
- Checklist: Technological records controls
- Template: Sample records retention schedule
- 11-step FDA records retention implementation guide
- Policy framework for tying into a quality management system
- Sychronized audio-visual recording
- Slides with room for your own notes
- Customizable training certificate
- FDA presentation about record retention and integrity: Steve Wilson, FDA Regulatory Perspective – Data Integrity
- FDA guidance on retention requirements for clinical trial data
And more
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