The term Alcoa is an Acronym, which stands for Attributable, Legible, Contemporaneous, Original and Accurate. Alcoa was then expanded to Alcoa Plus (Alcoa +), by the addition of a few more concepts which are; Complete, Consistent, Enduring and Available.
Over time, the concept of Alcoa plus has been adopted by various industries, as a framework for ensuring that data security and integrity (data protection) is observed and maintained. Alcoa Plus has been implemented and is in use by various big bodies, such as the FDA, WHO, and GAMP. ALCOA is all about data quality.
In order to understand the concept better, below we will break down Alcoa Plus and define each part of the acronym:
Every organization is built around data, either in the form of research or normal day to day records. This data is crucial for future references, or when the management wishes to make decisions depending on past occurrences. Data is also used more importantly during profitability assessments by top level management. This brings up the need for data integrity, a need easily satisfied by application of the Alcoa plus concept.
ALCOA to ALCOA Plus for Data Integrity
ALCOA was an tool to implement the data integrity in pharmaceutical manufacturing facility but ACLOA + made this tool more powerful and sharp. Data security has its importance in pharmaceuticals.
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