The definition of China Quality Management Association is: "The guarantee provided by enterprises for users in terms of product quality ensures that the products purchased by users are reliable within the service life."
The definition of American Quality Management Association (ASQC) is: "QA is an activity system aimed at ensuring the effective implementation and completion of various quality management work".
Dr. J.M. Zhu Lan, a well-known quality management authority and American quality management expert, thinks: "QA is an activity to provide evidence to all parties concerned. These evidences are needed to build trust, indicating that the quality function is being fully implemented. "
The definition in ISO 8402: 1994 is "all planned and systematic activities implemented in the quality management system, and verified as required to provide sufficient trust to show that the entity can meet the quality requirements".
It can be seen that QA is a comprehensive and effective quality management activity for enterprises; For the outside of the enterprise, providing evidence to all interested parties is an activity.
QA is a system that includes all departments of pharmaceutical enterprises to ensure the production of high-quality products.
The explanation of FDA and EMEA is that GMP is a part of QA (Quality Management System), GMP only cares about all matters related to production and inspection, and matters related to product quality that have nothing to do with GMP belong to QA.