Receipt and quarantine for incoming materials
Article 30
1. Upon receipt, each container or grouping of containers of materials shall be examined visually for correct labelling, including for correlation between the name used by the supplier and the name used by the manufacturer, if these are different. 2. Damage to containers and any other problem (e.g. evidence of seal tampering or evidence of breaches of package integrity) that may adversely affect the quality of a material shall be investigated. 3. Incoming materials shall be physically or administratively quarantined immediately after receipt, until their release is authorised by a responsible person, after verification of compliance with the relevant specifications. 4. Before incoming materials are mixed with existing stocks (e.g. solvents or stocks in silos), they shall be identified as correct, tested, if appropriate, and released. Procedures shall be available to prevent discharging materials erroneously into the existing stock. 5. Whenever bulk deliveries are made in non-dedicated tankers, the absence of cross-contamination from the tanker shall be assured. Such assurance can be provided by means of one or more of the following elements: — a certificate of cleaning, — testing for trace impurities, — audit of the supplier. 6. Large storage containers, and their attendant manifolds, filling and discharge lines shall be appropriately identified. 7. Each container or grouping of containers with incoming materials shall be assigned and identified with a distinctive code, batch, or receipt number. That number shall be used in recording the disposition of each batch. 8. A system shall be in place to identify the status of each batch during receipt and quarantine.