What are examples of corrective and preventive actions?

product recall
by allaboutgeorge

Question by Larce: What are examples of corrective and preventive actions?

Eg. a pharmaceutical product has become contaminated?
What would be some examples of corrective and preventive action a pharmaceutical company could take?
Would testing, identifying the cause, possible reactions – temperature, reagents be some examples? Any help appreciated.

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Answer by plays_poorly…
Eg. a pharmaceutical product has become contaminated?
What would be some examples of corrective and preventive action a pharmaceutical company could take?
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A attempted corrective action is after-the-fact: a product recall.
Such actions tend to be massively expensive, because lawsuits will inevitably ensue.

A preventative action, before-the-fact, would usually include such things as more-than-adequate quality control, both chemical and microbiological, as well as the moral and ethical concern for doing things correctly, and not barracading the doors and hoping that there’s not a problem.

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