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Change Management & Remediation

In the pharmaceutical industry, change management is one of the key elements that makes up a pharmaceutical quality system.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to manage the significant peaks of activity that occur with change management related to capital projects, facility and equipment maintenance, process improvements, and general regulatory requirements. Our highly trained staff of engineers enables clients to effectively augment internal teams with people who understand the equipment and processes to truly manage and execute on your behalf. Our proven success drives quick and reliable delivery of essential change management requirements mandated by regulatory agencies.

An effective change management system should include:

Quality risk management to evaluate proposed changes; the level of effort and formality of the evaluation should be commensurate with the level of risk.

Proposed changes should be evaluated relative to the marketing authorization, including current product and process understanding and/or design space.

Expert teams, with appropriate expertise and knowledge, should evaluate proposed changes.

An evaluation of the change should be undertaken after implementation to confirm the change objectives are achieved.

A complete documented history of the change, assessment, and implementation must be completed and filed for internal and governing body audits.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

IDENTIFY

Work with customers to identify need for changes and assess the level of effort and formality of the evaluation commensurate with the level of risk.

EVALUATE

Proposed changes are evaluated relative to the degree and complexity including current product and process understanding and/or design space of risk.

PLAN & IMPLEMENT

Precise planning allows for smooth implementation of changes while experienced technical resources apply the changes.

VALIDATE

An evaluation of the change should be undertaken after implementation to confirm the change objectives were achieved. A complete documented history of the change, assessment, and implementation must be filled for internal and governing body audits.

MONITOR

Consistently audit and review to verify state of full compliance and validation.

The FDA Change Management services provided by Verista include:

System and equipment validation periodic assessments and remediation.

Operational and quality system policy and procedure development.

CAPA (corrective and preventative action) investigations and implementation

Complete change control management within client quality systems to:

  • Open/Close
  • Develop
  • Manage
  • Execute change control and validation activities