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Re: ISO 9001 Surveillance - Thermometers not calibrated
This is not documented in our QMS. THe auditor just all of the sudden wanted to see storage rooms (that has a temperature system). Even if the reading is +/- 5 of 70 is still acceptable. We are not storing food, we are not measuring body temperature of patients, in other words, we don't have any health hazard nor product hazard with this storage rooms. The products inside the room won't go to any of our customers.
If calibration isn't necessary to ensure valid results (for whatever the temperature readings are used for) you don't have to calibrate. I'm wondering, though, why this temperature business is documented as a requirement in your QMS. What happens if the temperature is 75°?

It won't necessarily affect anything. This temperature device may be important.