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Hussain: Empowering Workers is the Key to Data Integrity

 
• By Bowman Cox

Why would pharmaceutical quality personnel fib about something like a batch test? Ajaz Hussain, the former FDA’er who helped launch the 21st Century Quality Paradigm, may have found the answer in the science of human behavioral economics.

Many Indian pharmaceutical companies need to strengthen their data integrity by changing their quality culture in ways that empower front-line workers, says Ajaz Hussain, an industry consultant, former FDA official and recognized authority on quality who early last year was working for one of India’s troubled drug makers.

During his FDA career, Hussain was a leader in FDA’s 21st Century cGMPs and process analytical technology initiatives, and he...

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