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I am in a discussion with different parties on how we address these two elements in the standard. One opinion is that they are both relatively the same and that preventive action can follow corrective action and so their use of common means to achieve either is acceptable. The other thought is preventive is not part of corrective action because the standard references pre-considerations in section 8.5.3. Because of wording such as "eliminate the causes of potential nonconformities" and "prevent their occurrence" it means consider the possibility of non-conformances. Any ideas or thoughts on this?

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