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A Low Cost, Seven-Step Approach to Reducing FDA Enforcement Risk

August 11, 2010
By Jack Garvey

August…   Summer…    Sun, sand and surf…    As the song goes:   “summertime and the living is easy…”    My hope is that all of you involved in quality and compliance are enjoying some time off with friends and/or family and getting a chance to read a good book on a quiet beach somewhere. Unfortunately, for FDA-regulated companies,...
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Urgency: Promise or Problem for FDA-Regulated Companies

July 20, 2010
By Jack Garvey

A couple of months ago I was engaged in a brief, friendly dialogue with one of my close friends – a college buddy – about a current business imperative:   urgency.      My friend is a Senior Partner with a large, very well-known business consulting firm,...
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CAPA – The Untold Story

July 8, 2010
By Jack Garvey
CAPA – The Untold Story

Try as I might in my consulting work, I can never seem to get away from CAPA.    As much as I would like to help companies prospectively improve their process control;   embrace better quality system integration and document design;   assess and implement computer-based quality...
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UPDATE: Free FDA GMP / QSR Ebooks for IPhone, IPad

June 22, 2010
By Jack Garvey

This is an UPDATE to a post from May 2010. Please click this link for the original post. On Monday, June 21, Apple released the IPhone OS4.    This update to the...
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Webinar, June 23: Inspection Readiness for a More Aggressive FDA

June 16, 2010
By Jack Garvey

Join the Center for Business Intelligence for a one-hour, information-packed webinar on managing FDA  inspections from a more aggressive FDA.   Now that pharmaceutical, medical device, dietary supplement, and biologics’...
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HACCP: Underused, Underappreciated and Exceptionally Powerful

June 4, 2010
By Jack Garvey

“When everything is critical, nothing is.” Author Unknown When you think back on your career as a Quality & Compliance Executive, how many times have you felt you had a manufacturing...
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Will Robinson – Soldier, Family Man, Professional, Friend – RIP

Will Robinson – Soldier, Family Man, Professional, Friend – RIP

Memorial Day Week is a fitting time to learn of the passing of a professional colleague and someone that I am proud to have considered a friend.  Willie Horace...
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Four Important Lessons From J&J/McNeil’s FDA Enforcement Troubles

It is almost impossible to fathom that a company with Johnson & Johnson’s reputation for excellence could be in the depth of difficulties it is currently experiencing with the...
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Free FDA GMP / QSR Ebooks for IPhone, IPad, Blackberry & Other E-Reader Devices

Aren’t the IPhone and the IPad great?? All of the information you could possibly want, right there at your fingertips!   As Quality & Compliance professionals, we often need to...
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