"I was the new employee and needed some information," says our GMP Agent-in-Place. "Our company makes 300 products, and some products use common ingredients. We had to make a change in one commonly used ingredient and wanted to be sure that we had evaluated the effects for all the necessary products. Because I was new, I didn't know how to figure this out except by looking at all the , and I voiced this frustration to my boss. She told me to use the 'Gazinta Report.'
"So I asked several people for this report, and was given a six-inch thick computer printout. But when I looked at the title, it didn't say Gazinta, and I thought I had the wrong data. When I asked my boss again, she laughed and told me to read the name fast. Apparently, the original request for what is commonly known as 'where used' data was requested as 'what the ingredient goes into,' and the printout was titled 'Goes Into Report.'"
Journal:
Pharmaceutical Technology, jun 2, 2007.
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