Hyderabad-based Goose a specialist in providing pharmaceutical business re-engineering solutions has launched Goose Proofreader, a 21 CFR part 11 compliant solution that enables excellent review of printed materials.
Goose also announced two of the top pharma companies in India, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals and Aurobindo Pharma have begun to use Goose Proofreader. The major challenge that the pharma industry faces today is to make the artwork error free. Goose Proofreader is engineered to deal with this challenge as it reduces the costly errors, increases accuracy and maximises productivity.
Making the announcement Deb Pattnaik, Founder and CEO, Goose said, “Our goal is to make Goose Proofreader as an industry standard. It is a completely new alternative to manage document proofreading task. Usage in our client location has tackled even the most complex tasks like evaluation of multilingual texts, comparison of images in different angles at the same time adhering to strict FDA regulations effortlessly. This is a key solution to current processes which is human error prone leading to huge potential loss to the global pharma organisations.”
According to FDA enforcement report in 2012-(Medmarc- Foley & Lardner LLP), total product recalls for the year 2004-2011 have increased from 4670 to 9288 which includes class I, II & III recalls. Industry experts say that 35 to 40 per cent of pharma product recalls happen due to faulty packaging and mislabeling. From 2004-2012, there were 15 per cent class one drug recalls for mislabelling. Therefore, it is critical for companies to provide accurate printed material. This would mean that the printing components of the packaging workflow should work efficiently.
Goose Proofreader compares and proofreads artwork files and leaflets and gives detailed report on the derived results. The tool performs two types of comparison. These are: Pixel to Pixel (Compares images and texts) and Text Verification (Compares only texts).
The key features of Goose Proofreader are: It identifies differences in the texts and images. It also compares scanned copy with system generated copy. Other features include image rotation, auto crop, flip, resize, angle suggestion, overlay etc. for evaluating files. The solution generates detailed report for pixel to pixel comparison and has the ability to read Barcode and Pharmacode.
The advanced capabilities of comparing sentence to sentence and word to word in documents are yet another feature of Goose Proofreader that the pharma industry can benefit from. It compares individual images present in the leaflet files and gives detailed report.
Goose unique electronic proofreading solution can reduce errors and cut down on the cost in printed materials and also streamline the packaging process. It restructures the proofreading process, improves efficiency and reduces approval timings which in turn reduces product recall and increases product profitability.
EP News Bureau