Preface to the First Mettler-Toledo Edition |
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Preface to This Hanser Edition |
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Contents |
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Introduction |
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Part 1 Validation of Computerized Systems |
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1 Changes in Regulations and Regulatory Guidance Since the First Mettler-Toledo Edition |
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1.1.1 Regulatory Authority Data Integrity Guidance Documents |
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1.1.2 Industry Data Integrity Guidance Documents |
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1.1.3 ALCOA+ Criteria for Integrity of Laboratory Data |
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1.1.4 Static and Dynamic Data |
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1.1.5 Data Integrity Guidance Summary |
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1.2 Updating (EL) Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Regulations |
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1.3 USP <1058> Analytical Instrument Qualification |
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1.4 GAMP 5 Guide and Validation of Laboratory Systems Good Practice Guide |
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1.5 Validation of Analytical Procedures |
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1.6 A Data Integrity Model |
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2 Instrument Qualification, Computerized System Validation and Method Validation |
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2.1.1 What is a Computerized System? |
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2.1.2 Instrument Calibration and Adjustment |
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2.1.3 Analytical Instrument Qualification (AIQ) |
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2.1.4 Computerized System Validation (CSV) |
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2.1.5 Reconciling Analytical Instrument Qualification and Computerized System Validation |
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2.1.6 Different Aims of Computerized System Validation IQ and OQ |
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2.1.7 Future of the 4Qs Model |
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2.1.8 Analytical Method Validation (AMV) |
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2.1.9 AIQ, CSV and AMV Interrelationships |
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2.2 Apply Validated Methods Using Qualified Instrumentation |
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2.3 Distinguishing between Analytical Instrument Qualification and Method Validation |
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2.3.1 What is Done in AIQ and What is Done in AMV? |
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2.3.2 Impact of AIQ on Method Transfer |
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3 Regulatory Requirements for Computerized System Validation |
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3.2 Responsibility for Computerized System Validation |
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3.3 Regulations and Guidelines Impacting a Computerized System |
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3.3.1 FDA Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) 21 CFR Part 211 |
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3.3.2 Quality System Regulation for Medical Devices: 21 CFR Part 820 |
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3.3.3 ICH Q7(R1): GMP for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients |
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3.3.4 Electronic Records and Electronic Signatures: 21 CFR Part 11 |
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3.3.5 European Union GMP Annex 11 for Computerized Systems |
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3.3.6 FDA Guidance on General Principles of Software Validation |
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3.3.7 FDA Guidance on Computerized Systems Used in Clinical Investigations |
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3.3.8 PIC/S Guidance for Computerized Systems |
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3.3.9 Summary of Regulatory Requirements |
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3.5 Warning Letters and Observations Involving Data Integrity and Computerized System |
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3.5.1 Quality Management System Failures |
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3.5.2 Instrument Citations |
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3.5.3 Citations for Lack of Laboratory Controls |
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3.5.4 Failure to Have Complete Laboratory Records |
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3.5.5 Key Data Integrity and CSV Inspection Learning Points |
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4 Computerized System Validation |
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4.1 Why Bother to Validate Your Computerized System? |
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4.2 What is Computerized System Validation (CSV)? |
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4.2.1 Principles of Computerized System Validation |
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4.2.2 Computerized System Validation Assumptions and Misconceptions |
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4.2.3 Problems with Computerized System Validation |
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4.3 Life Cycle Approach to Validation |
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4.3.1 Specifying the System |
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4.3.2 Interpreting the SDLC Deliverables for a Computerized System |
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4.3.3 Limitations of the V Model |
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4.3.4 Flow Chart of Computerized System Validation Activities |
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4.4 Computerized System Validation Roles and Responsibilities |
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4.5 Following the Corporate Computerized System Validation Policy |
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5 Writing the User Requirements Specification (URS) |
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5.1 What Do the Regulators Want? |
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5.1.1 FDA, GMP and GLP Predicate Rules |
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5.1.3 PIC/S, Good Practices for Computerized Systems in "GXP" Environments |
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5.1.4 General Principles of Software Validation |
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5.2 Business Rationale for Writing a URS |
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5.3 Contents of a Computerized System URS |
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5.3.1 When to Write the URS |
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5.3.2 Link the URS to a Specific Software Version |
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5.3.3 Sections of the URS |
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5.3.4 General Guidance for Writing the Requirements |
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5.3.5 URS Issues to Consider |
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5.3.6 Making the Requirements Traceable |
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5.4 Writing Testable Requirements |
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5.4.2 Writing Well-Formed and Testable Requirements |
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5.4.3 Key Criteria for User Requirements |
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5.5 Documenting System Configuration and Customization |
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6 Auditing the System Supplier |
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6.1 What Do the Regulators Want? |
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6.1.1 Preamble to 21 CFR Part 11 Final Rule |
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6.1.2 PIC/S Guidance, Good Practices for Computerized Systems in "GXP" Environments |
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6.1.4 Regulatory Requirements Summary |
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6.2 Rationale for a Supplier Audit |
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6.2.1 ISO 9001: Saint or Sinner? |
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6.2.2 ISO 9001 and ISO 90003 |
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6.2.3 Marketing Literature and Contracts |
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6.3 When Do I Audit the Computerized System Supplier? |
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6.3.1 On-Site or Remote Audit? |
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6.3.2 Remote Supplier Audit |
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6.4 On-Site Supplier Audits |
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6.4.1 The Scope of an On-Site Audit |
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6.4.2 The Role of an Audit Checklist |
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6.4.4 Using the Supplier Audit to Reduce PQ Testing |
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7 Installation Qualification and Operational Qualification (IQ and OQ) |
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7.1 What Do The Regulators Want? |
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7.1.2 PIC/S Guidance, Good Practices for Computerized Systems in "GXP" Environments |
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7.1.3 General Principles of Software Validation |
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7.2 Reconciling Analytical Instrument Qualification and Computer Validation |
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7.2.1 Different Aims of Computer Validation IQ and OQ |
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7.3 Installation Qualification (IQ) |
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7.3.1 Establish the Initial Computerized System Configuration Baseline Now |
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7.4 Operational Qualification (OQ) |
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7.4.1 Contents of an Operational Qualification Package |
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7.4.2 Evaluate the Supplier's Qualification Documentation |
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8 Performance Qualification (PQ) or End User Testing |
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8.1 What Do The Regulators Want? |
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8.1.2 FDA General Principles of Software Validation |
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8.1.3 FDA's New CSV Approach: Computer System Assurance (CSA) |
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8.1.4 Regulatory Requirements Summary |
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8.2 Principles of Software Testing |
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8.2.2 Types of Software Testing |
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8.2.3 Test Approach: White Box or Black Box Testing? |
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8.2.4 Manual or Automated Testing? |
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8.2.5 Planning What to Test |
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8.2.6 New Data System Features? Update the URS! |
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8.3.1 Tracing User Requirements to PQ Testing |
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8.3.2 Assumptions, Exclusions and Limitations of the Test Approach |
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8.4.1 Features to Test in any Computerized System |
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8.4.2 Write the Test Scripts |
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8.4.3 Outline Test Case Design |
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8.5 Defining, Documenting and Testing System Security |
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8.5.1 Is the Requirement You Are Testing Specified? |
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8.5.2 Designing the Tests |
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8.5.3 Risk Analysis: Extent of Testing? |
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8.5.4 Refining the Test Design |
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8.6 PQ Test Documentation |
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8.6.1 Key Test Scri pt Sections |
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8.6.2 Documenting Test Execution Instructions and Expected Results |
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8.6.3 Writing Observed Results |
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8.6.5 Suggested Documentation |
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8.6.6 Documenting Observed Results |
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8.7 Collating Documented Evidence |
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8.7.1 Has the Test Passed or Failed? |
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8.7.2 Some Considerations for Testing Electronic Signatures |
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8.7.3 Handling Testing Deviations |
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1 Measurement Errors and Uncertainty of Measurement |
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1.1 Introductory Comments |
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1.2 Systematic Measurement Errors |
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1.2.1 Propagation of Systematic Measurement Errors |
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1.3 Random Measurement Errors |
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1.4 Possible Causes of Measurement Errors |
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1.4.1 Influence of the Method |
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1.4.2 Instrumental Influences |
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1.4.3 Sampling and Sample Preparation |
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1.4.4 Environmental Influences |
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1.4.6 Time-dependent Interdependencies |
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1.4.7 Parameters for the Measurement Method and Evaluation |
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1.4.8 Shortcomings of the Analyst |
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1.4.9 Measurement Errors due to "Gross Errors" |
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1.5 Detection and Elimination of Measurement Errors |
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1.5.1 Checking the Theoretical Basis |
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1.5.2 Changing the Measurement Conditions |
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1.5.3 Choosing a Different Measuring Method |
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1.5.4 Using Methods that Largely Exclude Systematic Measurement Errors |
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1.5.5 Interlaboratory Studies |
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1.6 Uncertainty of Measurement |
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1.6.1 What is Measurement Uncertainty? |
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1.6.2 Different Types of Uncertainty |
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1.6.3 Procedure to Determine Measurement Uncertainty |
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1.6.4 Example 1: Glass Transition Temperature and Tolerances |
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1.6.5 Example 2: Estimation of the Uncertainty of the Enthalpy of Fusion in a DSC Measurement |
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1.6.6 Example 3: Uncertainty Estimation of the Modulus of an Elastomer in the Rubbery Plateau |
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2 Validation of Analytical Procedures and Methods |
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2.1.2 Basic principles of the validation |
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2.1.3 Validation Documentation |
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2.1.4 Frequency of Validation |
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2.2 Performance parameters |
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2.2.1 Trueness, Precision and Accuracy |
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2.2.4 Selectivity and Specificity |
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2.2.6 Limit of Quantitation |
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2.2.9 Assessing Method Capability/Process Capability |
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3 Interlaboratory Studies in Thermal Analysis |
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3.1.1 Purpose of Interlaboratory Studies |
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3.1.2 Conducting Interlaboratory Studies |
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3.1.3 Performance Parameters from Interlaboratory Studies |
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3.1.4 Benefits of Interlaboratory Studies |
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160 | (1) |
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3.1.5 Limits of Intestability of Interlaboratory Studies |
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3.2 Interlaboratory Studies using DSC |
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3.2.1 Determination of the Oxidation Induction Time and Oxidation Onset Temperature |
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3.2.2 Glass Transition Temperature |
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3.2.3 Crystallinity and Melting Point |
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3.2.4 Curing Reactions of Epoxy Resins |
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3.3 Interlaboratory Studies using Thermogravimetry |
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3.3.1 Plasticizer Determination |
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3.3.2 Carbon Black Content of Polymer Compounds |
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3.3.3 Ash Content of Polymer Compounds |
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4 Method Development Through to SOP |
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4.1 Introductory Comments |
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4.2 Method Development in Thermal Analysis |
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4.2.2 Step 1: Choosing the Right Measurement Technique |
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4.2.3 Step 2: Sampling and Preparation of the Test Specimen |
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4.2.4 Step 3: Choosing the Crucible (only DSC and TGA) |
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4.2.5 Step 4: Choosing the Temperature Program |
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4.2.6 Step 5: Choosing the Atmosphere |
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4.2.7 Step 6: Examining the Test Specimen after the Measurement |
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5.1 Validation of a DSC Method for the Determination of Tg of Polystyrene |
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186 | (9) |
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5.1.2 Development of a Draft SOP |
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186 | (7) |
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5.1.4 SOP of the Validated Method |
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5.2 Validation of the DSC Purity Determination of Ethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate |
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195 | (6) |
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5.3 Determination of the Carbon Black Filler Content of SBR by TGA |
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201 | (6) |
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5.3.2 Draft SOP Based on a Test Method Used in an Interlaboratory Study |
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Appendix 1 21 CFR Part 11 and EU GMP Annex 11 |
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207 | (1) |
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1 What is 21 CFR Part 11? |
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3 Overview of the Main Features of the Regulations |
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208 | (1) |
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3.2 Main Aims of the Part 11 Regulation |
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4 Key Definitions in 21 CFR Part 11 and Annex 11 |
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209 | (2) |
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4.1.2 Open and Closed System |
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4.1.3 Electronic Signature |
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210 | (1) |
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4.2.1 Process Owner and System Owner |
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4.2.2 No Classification of Open and Closed System |
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5 Interpretation of Part 11 and Annex 11 |
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211 | (1) |
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5.1 Interpretation of Part 11 Using Existing Predicate Rules |
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5.2 Interpretation of Annex 11 by EU GMP Chapter 4 on Documentation |
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6 Part 11 is an Integrated Regulation |
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7 You Cannot Purchase a 21 CFR 11/Annex 11 Compliant System |
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7.1 Types of 21 CFR Part 11 / Annex 11 Controls |
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7.2 Annex 11 Has Only Technical and Procedural Controls |
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8.1 Overview of Sub-Part B (Electronic Records) |
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8.2 What are Electronic Records? |
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8.3 Training of all Staff involved with the System |
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8.10 Electronic Signatures |
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8.11 Linking Electronic Signatures with Electronic Records |
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9 Impact of 21 CFR 11 on Analytical Laboratories |
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9.1 Moving from Paper to Electronic Records |
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10 Controls Required for 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance |
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221 | (2) |
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11 Implementing a 21 CFR Part 11 Compliant System |
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12 Are Complete Data and Raw Data the Same? |
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12.1.1 EU GMP Chapter 4 and Raw Data |
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12.1.2 No EU GMP Definition of Raw Data |
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12.1.3 MHRA GXP Data Integrity Guidance |
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12.1.4 US and OECD GLP Regulations |
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12.1.5 What About Raw Data in GMP? |
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12.1.6 Understanding Complete Data |
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12.1.7 Are Raw Data and Complete Data the Same? |
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Appendix 2 Basic Statistics |
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1.2 Statistical Parameters |
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1.2.1 Measures of Location |
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1.3 Estimating Statistical Parameters for a Population |
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2 The Normal or Gaussian distribution |
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3.1.1 Confidence Interval for the Mean |
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3.1.2 Confidence Interval for the Standard Deviation |
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3.1.3 Confidence Intervals as a "Test Statistic" |
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3.2.1 T-Test: Comparison of a Mean with a Target Value |
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3.2.2 T-Test: Comparison of Mean Values of Two Normal Distributions |
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3.2.3 F-Test: Comparison of the Variances of Two Normal Distributions |
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3.3 The Correlation Coefficient |
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4.1 Standard Normal Distribution |
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4.2 P-Quantiles of the T-Distribution |
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4.3 95%-Quantiles of the F-Distribution |
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4.4 97.5%-Quantiles of the F-Distribution |
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4.5 99%-Quantiles of the F-Distribution |
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4.6 P-Quantiles of the X2-Distribution |
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4.7 Critical values for the Dixon Test |
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Appendix 3 Standard Test Methods for Thermal Analysis |
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List of Acronyms |
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References |
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Index |
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