FDA eyes on "Antibacterial Soaps"

US FDA nowadays are more vigilant on the antibacterial soaps; as per a senior microbiologist from FDA reveals that they have not found any significant changes in results when a person is using ordinary soap or antibacterial soap with water to clean body parts.

Generally to add on antibacterial properties to the soap;the triclosan is used by companies which has its own health related risk while using triclosan in the product.

FDA are working on same and the matter is under study and may be possible that FDA gives instruction to companies to specify that what is additional benefit of using antibacterial soap as compare to ordinary soaps on the product itself.

Ban on five Parabens by European Union from feb 2014

As per European commission draft notification published in Oct 2013.The five parabens are going to be banned in the Europe effective from Feb 2015...the following are the names of those parabens:

1.Iso propyl paraben
2.Iso butyl paraben
3.Phenyl paraben
4.Pentyl paraben
5.Benzyl paraben

Also European Commission restricting the use of Triclosan as preservative in the cosmetic products. 

What is the difference between TDS and Hardness of water??

TDS is the total amount of inorganic and organic salt ions including all minerals present in the water on the other hand Hardness of water is the measure of calcium and magnesium ions present in the water....

8 QM (Quality Management) Principles- Backbone of ISO 9001:2008

If we say that the following "8 QM Principles" are the backbone of ISO 9001:2008 worldwide accepted Quality Management System, it will not be an untrue words.The whole standard of ISO 9001:2008 are developed only on the consideration of these 8 QM Principles which are mentioned as below:

Principle 1: Customer Focus

Principle 2: Leadership

Principle 3: Involvement of People

Principle 4: Process Approach

Principle 5; System Approach to Management

Principle 6: Continual Improvement

Principle 7: Factual Approach to Decision Making

Principle 8: Mutual Beneficial Supplier Relationship

These principles are godly words for any organization, interested in making their Quality Management system stronger and more fool proof to ultimately gain more profits for the company by the means of achieving more consolidate "Customer Satisfaction"...

How to Draft an SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)???

The drafting of an SOP is indeed an specialized technical job but the basics of all the SOP writing are nearly same. There are some common headings which are the integral part of any SOP, and can be mentioned as follows;

1. Objective.....It includes that what is the purpose/objective of writing this SOP.

2.Scope....Scope means to whom concerned departments/people , this SOP are applicable

3. Responsibility...It defines that who are directly responsible for the implementation of said SOP

4.Accountability...It defines who are the accountable people, to ensure the effective implementation of the SOP and sustaining the same.

5. Procedure:  Here includes the step wise detailed description of the whole process/procedures to be followed.

6. Allied Documents/Formats: It includes the list and details of those formats/records/documents which are inter-related with the concern SOP.

7. Revision History: This portion of SOP includes the all back history, if any revision was made to the SOP with proper reason for revision and date of revision.

8.Prepared By, Checked By & Approved By: Here are the name and designation of those people who has prepare, checked and approved the SOP.

Once the SOP gets its proper concerned approvals,now it is ready for the circulation to concerned department/Process owners and from here "SOP" will starts the journey of implementation....

What is Reverse Phase and Normal Phase HPLC techniques ??

HPLC is basically consist of two types of separation techniques I.e. Normal phase and Reverse phase techniques....;

In normal phase HPLC techniques the stationary  phase is  polar in nature and mobile phase is non polar in nature

The vice versa is true for the Reverse phase chromatography in which stationary phase is non polar and mobile phase is polar in nature...one of the such common example is the combination of C18 bonded silica as stationary phase and methanol as mobile phase....

What is the difference between Calibration & Verification of an instrument????

Calibration of an equipment is an well defined activity to be done at regular interval may be once in a year or half yearly even quarterly to ensure that all the components of equipment are working fine and are as a whole equipment is been capable of producing precised and accurate results each and every time.Apart from defined frequency after any major servicing or maintenance if equipment or in case of wrong suspected results produced by equipment;the calibration has to be done.

Verification is somewhat a reassuring kind of activity to be done on daily basis most commonly...giving the assurance that after calibration still the equipment is working fine and if any problem arise in equipment that vll be identified and sorted out at very initial stage....