SOP FOR non conformance reporting.
OBJECTIVE:
To lay down a procedure for non conformance reporting.
SCOPE:
This SOP shall be applicable for non conformance reporting to department head.
REFERENCE:
In-house
RESPONSIBILITY:
- Concerned Department Personnel: To report the non conformance as per SOP.
- QA Personnel: To investigate the non conformance in conjugation with concerned department personnel.
DISTRIBUTION:
All Departments
ABBREVATIONS & DEFINATIONS:
SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
QA: Quality Assurance
HOD: Head of department
- Non conformance
Non conformance is an unplanned event that occurs in non-compliance with the designed systems or procedures at any stage of the receipt, storage, manufacturing and analysis of a drug product.
PROCEDURE:
- Non conformance are classified as
- Quality impacting
- Quality non-impacting
- Quality impacting non conformances
- Quality impacting non conformance is occurrence / error during execution of any activity which will affect the quality, purity and strength of a product.
- Quality non impacting non conformances
- Quality non-impacting are occurrences during execution of any activity, which may have no impact directly on the quality, purity, and strength or a drug product.
- Address the non conformance in the non conformance report Form No as “CN/NC/13XX”.
CN : Company name
NC : Non conformance
13 : Last digits of year
XX : Serial Number
- Initiate non conformance report and fill in the details. Write investigation details and suggestive corrective action in conjugation with QA department.
- Forward the non conformance report to department head for comments and signature.
- Forward non conformance report to plant manager for comments and signature.
- Forward the non conformance report to QA manager for comments and signature.
- The QA department will keep the non conformance report for record and future reference.
FREQUENCY:
As and when any non conformance found.
ANNEXURE:
Annexure 1- Non Conformance Report
Annexure 1- Non Conformance Report
Non conformance Report Number: Department:
Sr. No. | Observations | Remark |
1. | ||
2. | ||
3. | Date | |
4. | Description of Non Conformance |
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5. | Investigation |
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Suggestive corrective action: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Initiator’s Sign / Date |
Department QA comments: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sign / date |
Department Head’s comments: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sign / Date |
Plant Manager’s comments: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sign / Date |
QA Manager’s comments: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sign / Date |