Chemical measurement data are often the basis for critical decisions on vital matters, including the health of individuals, environmental protection, and the production of safe, reliable, and useful products and services. As a result, the demand for measurement data is ever increasing, and therefore, measurement data must be with reliable with unequivocal evidence to prove accuracy and precision. The philosophy and procedures by which data users can obtain proof of the reliability accuracy of measurements is commonly referred to as quality assurance.
I have found a pretty cool tool to extract your Outlook Emails to individual PDF files in bulk. If you are like me you have thousands of emails in Outlook and need a way to extract those emails to a common format for archiving or sharing.
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Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) are by nature complex to design and build. They can be successfully applied across almost every facet of lab work, or once built, unfortunately, turn out to be essentially worthless.
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I recently wrote a blog on the failure of the LIMS at the FBI and provided a link to the article in the newspaper that reported the failure. Now the US DoJ, Office of the Inspector General Audit Division, has released, what I would consider, a very excellent and thorough report which provides an analysis of the cause and the recommendations. You can read more and view the entire report here.
Spectro Analytical Instruments, a Division of Ametek, has introduced a new low-cost but powerful Inductively-Coupled Plasma (ICP) called the GENESIS, specifically targeted to the environmental laboratory and waste water analysis markets.
We have added 36 new documents to the Labcompliance UsersClub. They include eight SOPs, four checklists/ templates/examples, two reference papers, eight FDA presentations, three FDA guidance documents and 12 FDA warning letters/483's related to GMP/GLP or GCP.
The "GAMP Guide for Validation of Automated Systems (GAMP 4)" is recognized as industry standard for computer validation. While this guide is an excellent framework for computer validation in general it is not detailed enough for specific applications, for example, laboratories.
In March of 1997 the FDA issued final Part 11 regulations that provide criteria for acceptance by the FDA of electronic records, electronic signatures, and handwritten signatures executed to electronic records as equivalent to paper records and handwritten signatures.
Is the FBI jinxed or what? It seems like only yesterday that I wrote a blog concerning the FBI's failures on another large IT project. Granted 2 points do not make a trend but something is really wrong here.
Have you ever wondered how a search engine determines how to rank a web site. Well, it is a mystery to most everyone except the developers of search engines. Those developers (magic mirrors) have the answers but they are not saying, at least not directly.
he International Society of Environmental Forensics has grown out of the need for a platform to present scientific investigations that address environmental contamination subjected to law, public debate, or formal argumentation as well as the evaluation of the basic science that serves as underpinnings to those activities.
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I was reading a blog today at Lab Soft News entitled "Reference Lab with a Money-Back Guarantee". It got me to thinking how far our industry has declined or from another point of view how far our industry has advanced. I just can't decide which has happened.
Lab managers believe that their labs operate at near top efficiency within available resources; if they believed otherwise, they would change the system to make it so. However, this belief is based mostly upon intuition, informal observation, or other qualitative, and often flawed, information—obviously, every lab can’t be a top quartile performer.
Today, more and more labs are seeking to be ISO 17025 accredited. While LIMS can play a large roll in this, the LIMS will not be the single issue. There are many factors to consider. I read a pretty good article recently on the topic.
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