Prudent Laboratory Practices: Internal or External services - How to Select & Make the Best of it?
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Laboratory management is a challenge for any food related business at any level from farm to fork. The decision to analyze raw material, in-process or finish products, sanitation chemicals, the environment, etc. for the presence of chemical
residues, indicator bacteria or else is important and has to be done properly in order to be recognized as valid and acceptable by all parties involved such as the regulatory authorities or the clients.
Operating an in-house lab has its advantages and inconvenience but dealing with an outside lab isn't the easiest thing either. Optimizing the use of an in-house lab with parsimonious utilization of external laboratory services will greatly contribute to supply the quality and operation team with the best available information to make important and timely decisions about the product's and the environment. It will also bring a lot of credibility to any food quality system as well as contributing to reduce costs.
Objectives of the Presentation
Operating an in-house lab has its advantages and inconvenience but dealing with an outside lab isn't the easiest thing either. Optimizing the use of an in-house lab with parsimonious utilization of external laboratory services will greatly contribute to supply the quality and operation team with the best available information to make important and timely decisions about the product's and the environment. It will also bring a lot of credibility to any food quality system as well as contributing to reduce costs.
Objectives of the Presentation
- To learn about laboratory management options and make the right choice when it comes to assess laboratory needs and external services
- To evaluate your actual and future laboratory operations:
- Do they meet your needs?
- Are they related to regulatory obligations?
- Are they related to client/customer's requirements?
- Evaluating and adopting sampling methods and strategy that will generate useful data in a food establishment environment
- To maximize internal resources dedicated to laboratory operations
- To learn and apply basic method validation requirements as well as GLPs
- Learning how to use lab generated data to improve/strengthen validation studies
- To produce reliable lab results at the lowest cost using the best resources
- Optimize your resources and workflow for laboratory related operations
- Learning how to make better use of lab generated data when communicating with regulatory authorities/clients/third party organizations
- To learn how to use laboratory generated data to improve/strengthen your quality/HACCP/GFSI systems
- To determine the right balance between internal and external lab operations for your establishment/company/organization
- To learn how to evaluate an external lab
Outline
Why Should you Attend
The number and size of testing laboratories operating in the United States and many other industrialized nations has increased significantly over the last number of years. Small to mid-sized companies often are looking for a lab to serve as what amounts to their quality control department. External laboratories have assumed this role with smaller companies in large measure because of the expense of maintaining comparable facilities in-house.
In this webinar, Martin Michaud, Biochemist, MMNA Consultants will discuss about laboratory management options and how to make the right choice when it comes to assess laboratory needs and external services. He will discuss on sampling methods and how to use the lab generated data to improve GLP's and validation studies. He will help evaluate how to choose an external lab and determine the right balance between internal and external lab operations.
Areas Covered
The number and size of testing laboratories operating in the United States and many other industrialized nations has increased significantly over the last number of years. Small to mid-sized companies often are looking for a lab to serve as what amounts to their quality control department. External laboratories have assumed this role with smaller companies in large measure because of the expense of maintaining comparable facilities in-house.
In this webinar, Martin Michaud, Biochemist, MMNA Consultants will discuss about laboratory management options and how to make the right choice when it comes to assess laboratory needs and external services. He will discuss on sampling methods and how to use the lab generated data to improve GLP's and validation studies. He will help evaluate how to choose an external lab and determine the right balance between internal and external lab operations.
Areas Covered
- The laboratory function in a food establishment
- laboratory generated data
- In-house lab:
- Resources: human, physical space and material
- equipment
- Costs
- Benefits
- External lab:
- resources: human, physical space and material
- equipment
- Costs
- Benefits
- Sampling
- How to benefit from laboratory generated data?
- In real time
- On a daily basis
- in preparation for an audit/during an audit
- to reinforce/strengthen your quality/HACCP/GFSI systems
- Are the data produced/obtained reliable?
- In-house laboratory organization and basic GLPs
- Method validation basics
- Evaluating an external lab
- Determining the right balance between internal and external lab operations for your establishment/company/organization
- Objectives
- Internal resources
- Regulatory and Clients requirements/obligations
- Costs and ROI
- Supplier's program
- Compare pricing structure and program offered by competing lab in your area
Speaker/s
Instructor Profile:
Martin Michaud is a highly skilled and experienced professional involved in many industry sector with a lot of field practice while still being active as a trainer and communicator. He has spent numerous years in the meat and fish handling/processing industry throughout Canada as well as in the meat industry in many countries such as USA, Morocco, Japan and Vietnam.
Martin has extensive knowledge and know-how in quality management, process improvement, export requirements and regulatory affairs, food risks analysis, complaint and crisis management.
Among others:
He is also involved with the Codex Committee on residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods, known as CCRVDF and official WHO/CODEX ALIMENTARIUS body, as a member of the Canadian delegation.
He now operates his own consulting company supporting other private companies in their permit/license applications, validation studies, laboratory analysis, quality system implementation including process optimization and costs reduction efforts. He is also involved in national committees on the usage of fluorine in water as well as cooling towers training program development with the national professional chemist board (l'Ordre des Chimistes du Quebec) and the government of the Province of Quebec in Canada.
Martin Michaud holds a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and a M.Sc. Biology (molecular and cellular biology) from Laval University in Sainte-Foy, Province of Quebec, Canada. He studied inducibility of liver metabolism when exposed to PAHs using mammalian cell lines as a model at the Hotel-Dieu de Quebec Cancer Research Center. A scientific paper was published in Biochemical Pharmacology with his master's study work. Martin is also a co-author on many scientific papers in fisheries, molecular biology, forest science genetic, risk analysis and crisis management.
He also holds a qualification on "HACCP Principles" - passed with honors - from the British Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene.
Martin Michaud is a highly skilled and experienced professional involved in many industry sector with a lot of field practice while still being active as a trainer and communicator. He has spent numerous years in the meat and fish handling/processing industry throughout Canada as well as in the meat industry in many countries such as USA, Morocco, Japan and Vietnam.
Martin has extensive knowledge and know-how in quality management, process improvement, export requirements and regulatory affairs, food risks analysis, complaint and crisis management.
Among others:
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1. He has established, implemented and operated an accredited ISO 17025 chemistry contract lab in the waste water sector
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2. He held the position of Vice-President of Technical services for one of the largest Canadian meat and poultry company overlooking export requirements, regulatory compliance and laboratory activities for more than 20 registered establishment under CFIA authority
that are exporting to more than 65 countries.
He is also involved with the Codex Committee on residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods, known as CCRVDF and official WHO/CODEX ALIMENTARIUS body, as a member of the Canadian delegation.
He now operates his own consulting company supporting other private companies in their permit/license applications, validation studies, laboratory analysis, quality system implementation including process optimization and costs reduction efforts. He is also involved in national committees on the usage of fluorine in water as well as cooling towers training program development with the national professional chemist board (l'Ordre des Chimistes du Quebec) and the government of the Province of Quebec in Canada.
Martin Michaud holds a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and a M.Sc. Biology (molecular and cellular biology) from Laval University in Sainte-Foy, Province of Quebec, Canada. He studied inducibility of liver metabolism when exposed to PAHs using mammalian cell lines as a model at the Hotel-Dieu de Quebec Cancer Research Center. A scientific paper was published in Biochemical Pharmacology with his master's study work. Martin is also a co-author on many scientific papers in fisheries, molecular biology, forest science genetic, risk analysis and crisis management.
He also holds a qualification on "HACCP Principles" - passed with honors - from the British Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene.
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