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The trouble with "Human error" as a root cause
A professor once told me: “Don’t blame the person. Blame the process.” That has stuck with me my entire career. Because blame culture doesn’t solve problems. It hides them. It shames the people who are trying their best with what they’ve been given. 📌 Real change happens when we ask: What system allowed this to happen and how do we fix it? That’s why I founded F2i Partners. I saw a gap that could hurt people. So I chose to build the solution. — I’ve been on production floor
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Nov 61 min read
Can't outsource risk
CDMOs are incredible partners. But you can outsource: ✅ Execution support ✅ Facilities + equipment ✅ Even documentation You cannot outsource: ❌ Product ownership ❌ Patient safety ❌ Executive accountability When the FDA walks in, they’re not asking: “Did your vendor promise quality?” They’re asking: “Show me your evidence of control.” Bringing in experts reduces risk. Abdicating responsibility compounds it. Strong programs maintain: ✔ Transparent governance ✔ Defined decision
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Nov 51 min read


Beyond Compliance: The FDA’s Most Dangerous Gift — Flexibility
In biopharma, few things cause more collective eye-rolls than a new FDA guidance that feels. Open to interpretation or that seems to repeat the same “old” news in slightly new packaging. It’s easy to think, “Haven’t we heard this before?” But maybe that repetition isn’t redundancy. Maybe it’s reinforcement. Because every time the agency revisits familiar ground risk-based thinking, data integrity, process understanding it’s reminding us that these aren’t trends. They’re foun
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Oct 272 min read


GMP Doesn’t Mean Good Manufacturing Paperwork
GMP. Good Manufacturing Practice. It was designed to protect patients. It ensures consistency, safety, and control. But somewhere along the way, we started treating GMP as a ceiling, not a floor. We stopped asking, “How can we do better?” and started saying, “At least it’s compliant.” --- When Compliance Becomes Complacency In too many facilities, “GMP-compliant” has become synonymous with “ mission accomplished .” Documentation gets prioritized over design, approvals over i
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Oct 232 min read


Validation Is Broken — And Everyone Knows It
Walk into any GMP facility and you’ll hear it whispered over coffee or muttered during protocol review: “Validation is broken.” We all know it, but few are willing to say it out loud. For years, validation has been treated like a bureaucratic ritual: a mountain of documents meant to prove compliance rather than performance. We generate protocols, execute tests, and issue final reports that may satisfy auditors, but do they really prove our processes are robust, reproducible,
Admin Biz
Oct 232 min read
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