5 Reasons to Keep the Legal Department Away from your Quality Agreements

5 Reasons to Keep the Legal Department Away from your Quality Agreements

As consultants for the pharmaceutical industry, one of our services is setting up and negotiating (technical) quality agreements between suppliers and customers. We usually work for the pharmaceutical customer, so we wrote this blog from that perspective. We do realize that quality agreements go by different names, such as technical agreements, TQAs, QTAs, QAAs, etc. In this blog, however, we consider

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Counting down the no-nos  during audits: Number 1: Bribing the auditor

Counting down the no-nos during audits: Number 1: Bribing the auditor

As auditors for the pharmaceutical industry, we have the opportunity to visit the most wonderful places as well as the most interesting companies. We are lucky enough to conduct audits all over the world. Apart from visiting some exemplary companies, we sometimes encounter things we would rather not see. In these last few weeks of 2018, we are counting down the

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Counting down the no-nos  during audits: Number 2: Power outage on the site

Counting down the no-nos during audits: Number 2: Power outage on the site

As auditors for the pharmaceutical industry, we have the opportunity to visit the most wonderful places as well as the most interesting companies. We are lucky enough to conduct audits all over the world. Apart from visiting some exemplary companies, we sometimes encounter things we would rather not see. In these last few weeks of 2018, we are counting down the

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Counting down the no-nos  during audits: Number 3: The audit as a black tie event

Counting down the no-nos during audits: Number 3: The audit as a black tie event

As auditors for the pharmaceutical industry, we have the opportunity to visit the most wonderful places as well as the most interesting companies. We are lucky enough to conduct audits all over the world. Apart from visiting some exemplary companies, we sometimes encounter things we would rather not see. In these last few weeks of 2018, we are counting down the

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Counting down the no-nos  during audits: Number 4: Doing the audit at all cost

Counting down the no-nos during audits: Number 4: Doing the audit at all cost

As auditors for the pharmaceutical industry, we have the opportunity to visit the most wonderful places as well as the most interesting companies. We are lucky enough to conduct audits all over the world. Apart from visiting some exemplary companies, we sometimes encounter things we would rather not see. In these last few weeks of 2018, we are counting down the

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Counting down the no-nos  during audits: Number 5: Oops, the cleanroom is flooded.

Counting down the no-nos during audits: Number 5: Oops, the cleanroom is flooded.

As auditors for the pharmaceutical industry, we have the opportunity to visit the most wonderful places as well as the most interesting companies. We are lucky enough to conduct audits all over the world. Apart from visiting some exemplary companies, we sometimes encounter things we would rather not see. In these last few weeks of 2018, we are counting down the

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