Manufacturing Documentation in Pharmaceutical Environment

[ricky07]

hi

I am looking for some benchmarking information. How do you handle manufacturing documents in Pharmaceutical environment - it is stored as hard copies or microfiched/scanned?

its general practice to keep these documents. For how long do you keep the hard copies for?

many thanks

 

[RoxaneB]

hi

I am looking for some benchmarking information. How do you handle manufacturing documents in Pharmaceutical environment - it is stored as hard copies or microfiched/scanned?

its general practice to keep these documents. For how long do you keep the hard copies for?

many thanks

Why limit your benchmarking quest to pharmaceutical industries? You might discover something innovative from another industry.

Still, document control is document control and if you do a search on here (Search is located in the upper-right of this screen), you'll find a multitude of discussions that have been held on this topic.

While it depends on the size (and resources) of the organization, I think there is a push to move to e-documents.

By the way, are you asking about documents such as procedures and work instructions OR documents such as completed forms (in othe words, records)?

 

[ricky07]

thanks Roxane

this is specific issue in Pharam companies as its regulatory expectations. The challenge is that current technology such as scanning hard copies can be time consuming and expensive. Holding hard copies for a fixed period seems to be the obvious solution. I want to know if this is the common practice?