Does anyone have any suggestions on how to write/show validation for activities?
Does it need to be a write up or will a checklist suffice?
Does anyone have any templates or examples of how you validated?
Thank you!
Posted 17 December 2019 - 03:15 PM
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to write/show validation for activities?
Does it need to be a write up or will a checklist suffice?
Does anyone have any templates or examples of how you validated?
Thank you!
Posted 17 December 2019 - 07:45 PM
Validation and Verification have always been something that seemed to be contradictory. I believe "verification" is the activity taken to prove something. Verification could be Inspection, demonstration (for instance watch them perform and SSOP), testing, analysis.
Proof of VALIDATION that a program is working would be the act of compiling all of the verification data points, along with other pertinent data points (Excerpts from current policy/procedure, random document review, customer complaint review, etc.).These data points would be the evidence showing program validation.
I wont send you my document, you will have to create your own. But here's an excerpt of validation for 11.2.12.8 from last years IPM internal audit
Column 1 is the clause ## (I broke each clause out individually), column 2 is the wording in the clause, column 3 is evidence of program validation. I used both current policy and review of the IPM manual to validate that this particular clause was being followed. The XXX's are in place to protect the innocent.
11.2.12.8
Pest contractors shall be: i. Licensed and approved by the local relevant authority; ii. Use only trained and qualified operators who comply with regulatory requirements; iii. Use only approved chemicals; v. Report to a responsible authorized person on entering the premises and after the completion of inspections or treatments; and vi. Provide a written report of their findings and the inspections and treatments applied.
Posted 19 December 2019 - 02:31 AM
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to write/show validation for activities?
Does it need to be a write up or will a checklist suffice?
Does anyone have any templates or examples of how you validated?
Thank you!
Hi karlieh,
I suggest you study the detailed SQF Guidance material.
@tgoss, thanks yr input. I might add that SQF does not require validation, per se, of PRPs.
As previously discussed here, SQF Code has a contentious history regarding the interpretation of "Validation". Less so for Verification.
Kind Regards,
Charles.C
Posted 19 December 2019 - 02:54 PM
Verification - proving you are doing what you say you are doing
Validation - proving that what you are doing is working and effective - does it work?
For SQF, you have to validate your PRPs and CCPs in your HACCP plan.
Validation examples:
1. Personal Practices - Review the floor audits to ensure that employees are meeting the requirements of the program
2. Training - Interview employees to ensure job training has been effective and that key points are understood
3. Cleaning & Sanitization - Perform environmental testing to ensure environmental microbial loads are acceptable
4. Foreign Material Control - Review customer complaints for foreign material contamination
CCPS - Metal detector - consult the literature and ensure that the test pieces used will prevent foreign metallic material in the product (refer to See CPG Sec. 555.425 Foods, Adulteration Involving hard or Sharp Foreign Objects)
you get the idea.
Posted 19 December 2019 - 03:33 PM
Consistent verification over time is validation, assuming the verification is proven to work.
If you can prove your verification is effective and routinely perform the verification that is a validation.
Posted 20 December 2019 - 03:55 AM
Consistent verification over time is validation, assuming the verification is proven to work.
If you can prove your verification is effective and routinely perform the verification that is a validation.
Some texts may agree with above, possibly(??) even including SQF despite Guidance/statements to the contrary, but Codex chronologically definitely does not.
SQF is a well-known shambles on the topic of Validation.
Nonetheless, for a nice example which may well have never been exactly "valid" albeit SQF welcomed, and should, by now, be obsolete but probably isn't see -
Kind Regards,
Charles.C
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