Quality Risk Management Adoption More Wide Than Deep – Survey
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
A high percentage of pharmaceutical companies say they have the quality risk management programs in their manufacturing facilities that US and EU inspectors are asking for. But many of them are not yet very mature.
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