- August 17, 2018
- Blog Posts, News
What Art and Science Have in Common: Only the Original Counts
By: Steve Ferrell, Chief Compliance Officer When modern GMPs were first developed in the 1970’s, few peripheral industries benefited more than the manufacturers of blue pens. Our younger readers may already be lost at this point, so for their benefit I’ll explain: most early photocopiers
- August 3, 2018
- Blog Posts, News
Because You Needed it Done Yesterday: Keeping Data Contemporaneous
By: Steve Ferrell, Chief Compliance Officer Time in the lab is a resource as precious as any instrument, test, or person. Many a fine lab technician has felt the need to find more; to time travel in a sense by recasting or fitting results into
- July 20, 2018
- Blog Posts, News
Why the Pen is Not Always Mightier: Legibility in Laboratory Data
By: Steve Ferrell, Chief Compliance Officer Have you ever been told you ‘write like a doctor’? If you have, odds are it wasn’t a compliment recognizing your superior cursive or your masterful ability to spell ‘acetaminophen’ without a spell check. It’s much more likely to
- July 10, 2018
- Blog Posts, News
An Admin by Any Other Name: Making Lab Data Attributable
By: Steve Ferrell, Chief Compliance Officer “My name is Connor, here’s my letters: C-O-N-N-O-R!” To my four-year-old, attribution is fundamental to his daily interactions. He is often surprised and bemused when he meets other Connors and even more so when they spell their name with