Environmental Quality Corner with Ken Appel

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Ken Appel, author of Quality Digest’s Environmental Quality Corner, is manager regulated markets for Veriteq, a Vaisala company. Veriteq provides environmental monitoring of temperature, humidity and other critical variables in controlled environments for regulated industries and other critical storage applications where product loss or audit failures are unacceptable.

Tue, 11/16/2010 - 05:00
Comparing Pharmaceutical Continuous Monitoring Systems: Part 2 Wired, wireless, and stand-alone monitoring instruments
Tue, 11/16/2010 - 05:00
Ken Appel is the manager of regulated industries for Veriteq. In part 1 of this article, we discussed the pros and cons of various systems for stand-alone monitoring instruments (e.g., chart recorders and data loggers) and wired networks, with…
Comparing Pharmaceutical Continuous Monitoring Systems: Part 1 Looking at compliance, risk, and cost for stand-alone, wired, and wireless systems
Mon, 11/15/2010 - 05:00
Ken Appel is the manager of regulated industries for Veriteq. T he U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its European Union counterparts recently agreed to cooperate on pharmaceutical plant inspections to enable stepped-up enforcement of…
21 CFR Part 11: Auditors Are at Your Door FDA steps up inspections to detect fraud and data manipulation
Tue, 08/03/2010 - 17:09
On July 8, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an initiative “… to evaluate industry’s compliance and understanding of Part 11 in light of the enforcement discretion described in the August 2003 Guidance for Industry Part 11,…
Congress Can Wait… But the FDA Won’t The FDA’s new enforcement culture won’t compromise public safety
Wed, 06/30/2010 - 08:14
For quite some time, polls have indicated that public approval for Congress remains at an all-time low. Congressional gridlock is difficult to watch for U.S. citizens who care about any issue and how our legislative process resolves the problems of…
What the Gulf Oil Spill Has to Do With Drug Safety From oil-tainted fish to pharmaceuticals, more FDA oversight is needed.
Tue, 05/18/2010 - 08:43
At the time of this writing, inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are at work monitoring seafood safety in areas affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Finger-pointing continues and there is now talk on the news of…
The New Mind-Set of the Pharmaceutical Industry Pharmaceutical and biotech industries prioritize reliability and environmentally-friendly solutions above purchase price.
Tue, 04/27/2010 - 08:59
Having exhibited at INTERPHEX for many years, Veriteq, a provider of environmental monitoring and validation solutions, has made many connections with leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The Veriteq team attending INTERPHEX 2010, on April…
The Plain Truth About Relative Humidity Sensors Learn the inherent limitations of your RH measurement system.
Tue, 03/23/2010 - 10:54
No quality control system is perfect. Just think “Toyota” in the context of today’s headlines and that should be abundantly clear. Taking Toyota’s predicament to heart—for any quality manager in any industry—means thinking through where the…