Information Systems:Preparing and posting the GMP Recall Worksheet
Overview
What happens when a product is recalled?
Types of Recalls
Instructions
Processing Recalls
Here's what to do when you're in charge of doing a recall.
Posting Product Recall Notices Online
- Recall notices are sent via the GMP Recall group. This will provide you with a trigger to go to the “GMP Recall Log” located on the Superserver.
- ONLY Type 1, Type 2, and Voluntary Withdrawal from the Market product recall notices are to be posted to the website.
- DO NOT POST TYPE 3 NOTICES.
- Now that you are in the “GMP Recall Log”, select the sub-folder containing the original Excel recall notice(s).
- Open the Excel document(s).
- Click the “uniPHARM Recall Notice” tab on the bottom of the sheet.
- Click File > Save As > change the type to PDF.
- Delete the “Copy of” from the file name.
- Save document in the folder named “Converted Recall Notices for the uniPHARM Website”.
- Repeat the above steps for each product recall notice received
in the e-mail.
- Login to the Exware admin site for uniPHARM; http://www.unipharm.com/cgi/login.cgi.
- Click the “Documents” menu located on the content management row.
- On the pop-up screen, click the “Product Recalls”
located under shareholders.
- Click the “new document” menu located on the upper left side.
- Click the “Choose File” to upload the new document.
- Title and Description fields to be left blank.
- Upload the PDF product recall notice.
- Once uploaded, click the “publish” menu button located on the upper right corner on the “Product Recalls” pop-up screen.
- Click the “Close Window” on the ExSite Publisher pop-up screen.
- Repeats the steps for each product recall.
- Click the “e-Zines” menu located on the application row
of the CMS home page.
- On the “e-Zines” pop-up select “Shareholders” from the select website drop down menu.
- Click the “Product Recall Information” zine.
- Click the “New” menu button located on the upper top of the pop-up window.
- In the “New Article”, enter the following:
a. Author field: leave blank b. Title field: type in Recall: (description of the product and item #) c. If there are variations on the product such as sizes, strengths, etc., then do not include it in the main description. d. Subtitle field: leave blank e. Summary field: leave blank f. Article field, type: i. For more information on this (these) recall (recalls), please click the link below: ii. (bullet point) (then description of the product) iii. (add bullets for each variation of the product - various sizes, strengths, etc.)
- Highlight individual bullet point to hyperlink to PDF document.
- Click the “Insert/Edit Link” menu button (the chain link image).
- Change the “Type” to “Image/Document”.
- In the “Select Library” field, select “Product_Recalls”.
- In the “Select Image/Document” field, select the appropriate PDF file.
- Click the “Open this link in a new window”
- Click “Insert”.
- Continuing in the “New Article”, enter the following:
a. Footnotes: leave blank b. Name for URL: leave blank c. Sort Key: leave blank d. Picture: leave blank e. Caption: leave blank f. Status: change to active g. Owner: leave blank h. Site: should be “Shareholders (3)” i. Extra Images: leave blank
- Click the “Submit” button.
- Check the public site’s “Product Recall Information” section to ensure link(s) appear and work as configured.
- Logout of the Exware CMS.