What is the Full Form of CAPA?

CAPA Full Form

CAPA stands for Corrective and Preventive Action, a quality process used to fix existing problems and prevent them from recurring.

CAPA is used in pharmaceutical quality systems to address quality issues in a structured way. It combines actions taken to correct an identified problem with actions intended to reduce the likelihood of the same or a similar problem happening again.

Corrective Action

Corrective action helps CAPA fix an existing quality problem by identifying and addressing the cause responsible for it.

It focuses on issues that have already occurred and may involve changes to procedures, training, equipment, materials, or processes depending on what contributed to the problem.

Preventive Action

Preventive action helps CAPA reduce the risk of quality problems recurring by controlling conditions that could lead to future failures.

It uses information from investigations, trends, risks, and previous quality issues to strengthen processes and reduce the likelihood of similar problems happening again.

CAPA Process

The CAPA process connects problem identification, investigation, corrective action, preventive action, and follow-up so quality problems can be fixed and prevented from recurring.

The process may include identifying the issue, investigating its cause, defining appropriate actions, implementing those actions, documenting the results, and checking whether the actions were effective.