[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR58.63]

[Page 313]
 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 58--GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE FOR NONCLINICAL LABORATORY STUDIES--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart D--Equipment
 
Sec. 58.63  Maintenance and calibration of equipment.

    (a) Equipment shall be adequately inspected, cleaned, and 
maintained. Equipment used for the generation, measurement, or 
assessment of data shall be adequately tested, calibrated and/or 
standardized.
    (b) The written standard operating procedures required under 
Sec. 58.81(b)(11) shall set forth in sufficient detail the methods, 
materials, and schedules to be used in the routine inspection, cleaning, 
maintenance, testing, calibration, and/or standardization of equipment, 
and shall specify, when appropriate, remedial action to be taken in the 
event of failure or malfunction of equipment. The written standard 
operating procedures shall designate the person responsible for the 
performance of each operation.
    (c) Written records shall be maintained of all inspection, 
maintenance, testing, calibrating and/or standardizing operations. These 
records, containing the date of the operation, shall describe whether 
the maintenance operations were routine and followed the written 
standard operating procedures. Written records shall be kept of 
nonroutine repairs performed on equipment as a result of failure and 
malfunction. Such records shall document the nature of the defect, how 
and when the defect was discovered, and any remedial action taken in 
response to the defect.

[43 FR 60013, Dec. 22, 1978, as amended at 52 FR 33780, Sept. 4, 1987; 
67 FR 9585, Mar. 4, 2002]