- Objective
To lay down procedure for determining of manufacturing date for QC chemicals.
- Scope
This SOP is applicable in quality control determining of manufacturing date for QC chemicals.
- Responsibility
QC Chemist / Officer : To follow the procedure and maintain as applicable.
- Accountability
Head Quality Control : For system Compliance
- Procedure:
- Whenever manufacturing date is not mentioned on the label
of Materials, We should decide the manufacturing date by following alternative
methods:
- With the help of Manufacturer’s enquiry by E-mail.
- With the help of Batch coding system of Manufacture.
- Batch Coding system of Manufacturer :
- Whenever manufacturing date is not mentioned on the label
of Materials, We should decide the manufacturing date by following alternative
methods:
Different manufactures have their specific batch coding system from which manufacturing date can be decided few systems are given below:
- Batch coding system for Merck:
Batch Number have Ten digits, in which first alphabet denotes the packing center, second alphabet denotes the month of manufacturing (A for Jan, b for Feb, C for March…… L for Dec.). Third digit indicates the year of Manufacturing.
For examples: B.No.CA9C690024
Manufacturing Date: JAN 2019
- Batch Coding System for S.D. Fine Chemicals:
Batch No. of material manufactured by S.D. Fine chemicals have 17 digits, in which first three digits denotes the manufacturing date. The First Alphabets denotes the month of manufacturing (A for Jan, B for Feb, C for Mar,………,L for Dec.) Second and Third digits represents the last two digits of year of manufacturing.
For Examples: B.No: A19A/0618/1312/31
Mfg Dt: JAN 2019.
- Batch Coding System for Qualigens:
Batch No of materials manufactured by Qualigens have 10 digits in which five to eight digits decide manufacturing date. Suppose B.No is 2549/1 6802-1. For determining the Mfg date and Year, We should consider the digits i.e. 6802, last 2 digits 02 denotes the month of manufacturing i.e. Feb and to determine manufacturing year add 1940 in first two digits i.e. 1940+68=2008 year.
- If batch coding system of manufacturing is not available send the e-mail with name of materials and batch No and ask for MFG.Date.
The E-mail addresses of manufacturers are given bellow:
LOBA CHEMIE: info@lobachemie.com
RANKEM: rankem@avantormaterials.com
- Annexure (S)
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- Reference (S)
In-house
- Glossary
SOP : Standard Operating Procedure
HOD : Head of Department
QC : Quality Control
- Revision History
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