21 CFR Part 11 compliant Instruments: Breaking down dangerous misconceptions

QP, QC and laboratory managers are liable for lost data. Unknown to many lab professionals, a standalone system with electronic records is problematic. These systems can risk a laboratory being issued an FDA warning letter and incurring extremely high costs.

Several companies from the pharmaceutical industry have recently asked for 21 CFR Part 11 certification for instruments that are not connected to a PC, so just using the instruments’ firmware. Some instruments in the market are apparently offered with precisely such certificates, raising the customer's hope of saving costs and effort.

The general consensus amongst experts, however, is that standalone instruments cannot be 21 CFR Part 11 compliant. What may look like a solution contains workarounds that cannot ensure data integrity.

Download this whitepaper to learn about the dangerous misconceptions in the pharma industry about 21 CFR Part 11 compliant instruments.

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Learn why electronic records on instruments are dangerous for your data security and will probably lead to severe consequences such as incompliance and data loss. Understand why electronic records are less cost intensive than paper records, and lead easier to compliance at better data quality. Get a better understanding of instrument classification according to USP <1058>	Misinterpretations have led some to assume they can save investment in hardware by saving electronic records on instruments and have lower qualification efforts, which is in fact not the case. Electronic records on an instrument must remain readable throughout the entire data lifecycle, which can be up to 50 years

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