What Kinds of cGMP Documents and Approvals Exists?

In this article, you will learn what kinds of cGMP documents and approvals exist.  Moreover, you can discover how to get a Document Management and Control Procedure Template and Document Management Software Application to handle your training activities fast and easily.

Typically, exist two (2) types of cGMP documents and approvals, in either case, the approvers must have the necessary standing, education, and experience to be designated for such purpose.

1. Manual Document and Handwritten Approval. This is the traditional and most common type of document and approval since it consists of a hard-copy paper with manual signatures of the document(s). A registry, list, and index of all manual or hand documents approved must be documented, maintained, and saved appropriately for future reference.  In the same manner, the signatures and initials of each approver must be registered and saved appropriately.

According to the 21 CFR part 11, a handwritten signature means “the scripted name or legal mark of an individual handwritten by that individual and executed or adopted with the present intention to authenticate a writing in a permanent form.” The act of signing with a writing or marking instruments such as a pen or stylus is preserved.” The scripted name or legal mark, while conventionally applied to paper, may also be applied to other devices that capture the name or mark.

2. Electronic Document and Approval. This approval is more modern and consists of an electronic signature using a computer device and application to control the authentication of each signature.   According to the 21 CFR part 11, an electronic record means “any combination of text, graphics, data, audio, pictorial, or other information representation in digital form that is created, modified, maintained, archived, retrieved, or distributed by a computer system.” The same code of federal regulations defines the electronic signature as “a computer data compilation of any symbol or series of symbols executed, adopted, or authorized by an individual to be the legally binding equivalent of the individual’s handwritten signature.”

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REFERENCES:

For more information about all kinds of documents and approvals, refer to:

httpss://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/part-11-electronic-records-electronic-signatures-scope-and-application

httpss://www.fda.gov/media/118202/download

httpss://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=820.40

QS Regulation and Guidance • Quality System Regulation and Preamble

www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?CFRPart=820&showFR=1

www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/PostmarketRequirements/QualitySystemsRegulations/ucm230127.htm

Inspection Guide – Pages 8, 15, 21, 22 and 23

httpss://www.fda.gov/ICECI/Inspections/InspectionGuides/ucm074899.htm

Guide to Inspections of Quality Systems [Quality System Inspection Technique (QSIT)]

www.fda.gov/iceci/inspections/inspectionguides/ucm074883.htm