COMPLIANCE TO CONFORMANCE

Dear Reader, “Compliance” is a term used and practiced extensively in the Pharmaceutical Industry. None of us are strangers to compliance, such as regulatory compliance, GMP compliance, compliance to pharmacopoeial standards, SOPs and many more. There are extensive treatises and even research studies on compliance. On a routine practice, the reference to compliance is extensive. However, an equally or more important terminology is “conformance”. Pharmaceutical Industry needs to move on from legal and regulatory compliances to “conformance”.