STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE LABELING OF REAGENTS STANDARD SOLUTIONS AND CHEMICALS

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE

SUBJECT:                      LABELING OF REAGENTS STANDARD SOLUTIONS AND CHEMICALS

DEPARTMENT           : QA SOP NO.                      : Page No                       : Effective Date             : Next Review                : SOP REVISION           :

1.0       OBJECTIVE:

To provide guidelines for preparation and  labeling of reagents and solutions in prepared Quality

 Assurance Department.

2.0       POLICY:

The practice of preparation and good labeling is essential for tracking,  correct handling of the analytical reagents, standard solutions and reagents.

1.0              PROCEDURE:

            The labeling system in Analytical lab consists of two categories:

1.1                                      Labeling on purchased Chemicals

            -This label specifies the chemical name, date of purchase, date opened & expiry date.

1.2                                      Labeling on the Standard or Reagent solution

-This label specifies the name of the solution, concentration/ factor, the date of preparation,

name of person who prepared & standardized, Recheck date and any other remarks like validity. Validity for water  reagents is one month and other reagents is three months.

-          The preparation of solution are recorded in the Log and labelled.

1.3                                      After the expiry the left over reagent is diluted with water and drained. Take necessary

precautions while diluting and draining the left over reagent.

2.0              FREQUENCY: As and when required.

3.0              RESPONSIBILITY: Executive QA. / Jr. Executive QA.

4.0              ANNEXURE: 1. Reagent labels.

                          2. Log Format.

7.0       SOPs DISTRIBUTION:

            This SOP shall be distributed to following Departments:

Name of the Department	Master Copy	Circulatory Copy
QA/QC	√	√
Production	x	x
Warehouse	x	x
General	x	x
Maintenance	x	x