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(Canon Communications LLC: Los Angeles) -- Join 16,000 medical product development professionals from around the world at MD&M West, the world’s largest medical design and manufacturing event, Feb. 8–11, 2010.
Whether you’re planning to attend the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD…
(FDA: College Park, MD) -- The Food and Drug Administration recently announced the publication of the new FDA Food Code, a model code and reference document that provides a scientifically sound technical and legal basis for regulating the retail and food service segment of the food industry. The…
(ISO: Geneva) -- Medical laboratories accredited to ISO 15189 (a sector-specific technical competence and management system standard) are now recognized as meeting the management system principles of ISO 9001.
The move was announced in a joint statement by the International Organization for…
(MasterControl: Salt Lake City) -- MasterControl, a global provider of software solutions that enable regulated companies to improve internal efficiency and reduce overall costs while accelerating time to market, recently announced that the company and i4DM, a MasterControl partner, have been…
(Ekobai Holdings Ltd.: Hong Kong) -- Ekobai.com, an online directory for certified suppliers and products has teamed up with the international organization GLOBALGAP (good agricultural practice) to produce a guide that analyzes how safety standards are changing global markets for food and…
(Sparta Systems: Holmdel, NJ) -- A recent survey of industry professionals at top medical device organizations found that although the increasing complexity of global supply chains is changing how device companies manage suppliers, many (45 percent) feel their current quality systems are…
On October 8, the federal government arrested three people in Southern California on suspicion of selling counterfeit integrated circuits (ICs) used in the manufacture of electronic devices to the U.S. Navy. The government executed search warrants at three business locations, two residences, and a…
(BSI: Reston, VA ) -- The first step in the risk management process is risk analysis. Risk analysis for medical devices requires the definition of a device's intended use, characteristics related to safety, identification of known and foreseeable hazards, and risk estimation for each hazard. Risk…
(StatPoint Technologies, Warrenton, VA) -- StatPoint Technologies Inc., a leading developer of statistical tools used in data analysis across the spectrum of business management, manufacturing, and scientific research, recently announced the immediate availability of Statgraphics Centurion XVI.…
(FDA: Rockville, MD) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently announced that it has awarded 83 grants for the 2009 fiscal year totaling $17.5 million to state and local regulatory agencies to boost food and feed safety initiatives among federal, state, and local partners. The grants fund…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality is offering a three-part prerecorded webinar series that spotlights one health care organizations’ use of the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria to drive organizational transformation. The webinar series complements the recently…
USDA’s fresh produce chief will join the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to help develop new food safety rules, as part of a cooperative initiative between the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Today’s announcement comes amid beefed up outreach efforts with key agriculture…
(FDAnews: Falls Church, VA) -- Earn 12 RAC credits while you discover field-tested, ICH Q9 risk management strategies that work for drugs and biologics, in “Applying Quality Risk Management Principles: Moving ICH Q9 from Theory to Practice,” an interactive workshop presented by LearningPlus and…
(PQ Systems: Dayton, OH) -- An option for concurrent-use licensing ushers in a new approach to the use of CHARTrunner from PQ Systems Inc., in its latest release. This “floating license” allows installation on multiple computers, with use limited only by the license itself.
CHARTrunner,…
(IQPC: New York) -- Pfizer, Genentech, AstraZeneca, and Elan are just a few of the companies who will be coming together to share operational excellence best practices and work together to find the optimum way to run their operational excellence programs.
From project valuation for operational…
(Mnitab: State College, PA)-- Minitab Inc. has released Quality Companion 3.2, an update to its software for managing and executing quality improvement projects.
This update introduces new functionality, including a powerful tool for value stream mapping (VSM), a primary technique used in lean…
(Citrix Systems: Fort Lauderdale, FL) -- In a harshly competitive environment with rising consumer expectations, customer satisfaction surveys are an essential tool for listening to customers and developing strategies for improvement. Successful surveys maximize the retention of current clients…
(Sparta Systems: Holmdel, NJ) -- Sparta Systems Inc., the maker of TrackWise software and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance solutions, announces that Ascent Healthcare Solutions Inc., a Phoenix-based leader in delivering health care resource sustainability, has selected its…
(Camstar Systems Inc.: Charlotte, NC) -- Does it seem like every time you perform a corrective and preventive action, exactly the same problem crops up again? If so, then you need to attend the webinar The Next Generation CAPA System: Recurring CAPAs? Find Root Cause. Enforce Actions. Prevent…
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces that it has commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to study the premarket notification program used to review and clear certain medical devices marketed in the United States.
The IOM study will examine the…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl’s best friend. But a research team including a physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently found1 that the gems might turn out to be a patient’s best friend as well.
The team’s work…
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Cambridge, UK) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., recently announced a new application note to illustrate the capabilities of its Thermo Scientific iCAP 6200 ICP spectrometer for the analysis of toxic trace elements in children’s toys. The dual-view inductively coupled…
(DNV Certification: Houston) -- How do I get started with food safety certification? What’s the process? What are the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmarked standards and which is best for my organization?
Do these questions sound familiar? Do you have more?
Attend "Food Safety…
(Olympus America: Center Valley, PA) -- Industrial engineers, quality control inspectors, and researchers can perform image capture and analysis tasks quicker and easier than ever, thanks to the groundbreaking new Olympus microscopy software platform, Stream v1.3. In industrial laboratory…
(UI: Iowa City, IA) -- A group of researchers at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business is using the principles of more efficient manufacturing processes in an effort to help contain ever-increasing health care costs.
“Whether you’re talking about health care or manufacturing, lean…