(1) Written procedures for fulfilling the requirements of this subpart, including written procedures for:
- (i) Calibrating instruments and controls that you use in manufacturing or testing a component or dietary supplement;
- (ii) Calibrating, inspecting, and checking automated, mechanical, and electronic equipment; and
- (iii) Maintaining, cleaning, and sanitizing, as necessary, all equipment, utensils, and any other contact surfaces that are used to manufacture, package, label, or hold components or dietary supplements;
- (2) Documentation, in individual equipment logs, of the date of the use, maintenance, cleaning, and sanitizing of equipment, unless such documentation is kept with the batch record;
(3) Documentation of any calibration, each time the calibration is performed, for instruments and controls that you use in manufacturing or testing a component or dietary supplement. In your documentation, you must:
- (i) Identify the instrument or control calibrated;
- (ii) Provide the date of calibration;
- (iii) Identify the reference standard used including the certification of accuracy of the known reference standard and a history of recertification of accuracy;
- (iv) Identify the calibration method used, including appropriate limits for accuracy and precision of instruments and controls when calibrating;
- (v) Provide the calibration reading or readings found;
- (vi) Identify the recalibration method used, and reading or readings found, if accuracy or precision or both accuracy and precision limits for instruments and controls were not met; and
- (vii) Include the initials of the person who performed the calibration and any recalibration.
- (4) Written records of calibrations, inspections, and checks of automated, mechanical, and electronic equipment;
(5) Backup file(s) of current software programs (and of outdated software that is necessary to retrieve records that you are required to keep in accordance with subpart P of this part, when current software is not able to retrieve such records) and of data entered into computer systems that you use to manufacture, package, label, or hold dietary supplements.
- (i) Your backup file (e.g., a hard copy of data you have entered, diskettes, tapes, microfilm, or compact disks) must be an exact and complete record of the data you entered.
- (ii) You must keep your backup software programs and data secure from alterations, inadvertent erasures, or loss; and
- (6) Documentation of the controls that you use to ensure that equipment functions in accordance with its intended use.