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Analytical laboratories are more and more faced to meet official regulatory requirements as described in FDA and EPA good laboratory practice, good automated laboratory practice and good manufacturing practice regulations or to officially establish quality systems, such as specified in the ISO 9000 Series quality standards, in the ISO Guide 25 or in the EN 45001 guidelines. The impact on analytical instrumentation will be the requirement for stringent validation of analytical equipment and methods which increase the overall analysis costs. An overview is presented on the validation requirements using e.g. gas chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, capillary electrophoresis and UV-visible spectroscopy and on the strategy to meet such needs at minimal extra costs with the help of an instrument vendor. It is recommended to use instrument hardware that has already built-in tools for self-verification and which is to be validated at the vendor's site. Performance testing in the user's laboratory is done using standard operating procedures as supplied with the instrument. If resources in the user's laboratory are limited, the performance verification is done by the vendor. Software and the entire computer system is validated prior to shipment at the vendor's site. Acceptance testing is done in the user's environment following the vendor recommendations. Analytical methods are validated automatically at the end of method development using a dedicated software. The software can be customized such that it can also be used for daily automated system suitability testing. Security and integrity of analytical data are ensured by saving the raw data together with instrument conditions and instrument log-books in check-sum protected binary register files for long-term archiving.
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Zanetti, M., Huber, L. Validating automated analytical instruments to meet regulatory and quality standard requirements. Mikrochim Acta 123, 23–31 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01244374
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01244374