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How Cloud-Based Tools Can Help With FDA Compliance

Sunil Gupta | Life Science Reader | September 5, 2013

These days, enforcing FDA compliance and mentoring new team members are more challenging than ever, thanks to a workforce that is more remote, international, and diverse. [...] With these changes, pharmaceutical companies need to adapt to grow and ride the cost-conscious trend just to survive... Read More »

How Laboratories and their Systems can Weather Natural Disasters and Pandemics

By Alan Vaughan, and John H. Jones | March 25, 2020

We are currently experiencing a global pandemic - which, while perhaps included in disaster preparedness Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) by many labs as a possible disaster, still has caught most the infrastructure and health systems of most nations largely unprepared, and is causing major disruption because it was arguably not seen as one of the most likely events. Disaster preparedness has typically tended to focus on IT and data management risks and/or natural disasters. SOPs center around standard, daily lab safety. The truth is that whatever the odds of a particular disaster, they become 100% once they happen. It's important to have sufficient risk-reduction SOPs in play, and a good Continuity Of Operations Plan (COOP) for each potential scenario to ensure the best chance of coping during the event and recovering afterwards.

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