English–Chinese reference · Life Science

Batch Record批记录

Batch Record is the complete, executed documentation for one production batch, capturing the materials used, equipment, process steps, yields, in-process controls, and final review signatures that show how the batch was manufactured. In life-science translation and localization work, it appears in manufacturing instructions, deviation investigations, audit packages, and regulatory dossiers where precise production history has to remain intact across languages.

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TERM REFERENCE · PROJECT CHECK
EnglishBatch Record
Chinese (Simplified)批记录
DomainLife Science

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Where this term appears

Translators commonly encounter batch records when localizing pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical-device manufacturing documentation such as master batch records, executed batch records, deviation summaries, and CAPA investigation reports. The source text often mixes structured fields, abbreviations, equipment identifiers, and transcribed handwritten remarks, so terminology must stay stable and data values must remain identical.

Translation checks

A common error is normalizing batch-record terminology or paraphrasing entries such as “yield,” “reconciliation,” and “reviewed by” in ways that blur accountability. Because batch records are legal production evidence, mistranslating a process step or signature role can make a batch look unapproved or obscure who performed a critical action.

Chinese document application

Batch Record in context · batch record

Self-created translation example
English source
Enter the actual processing time in the batch record.
Chinese rendering to review
在批记录中填写实际处理时间。

Illustrative wording only. Confirm the rendering against the actual source and approved project terminology.

Check the distinction in context

Actual processing time is an observed entry, not the planned duration in the instruction. Keep the unit, blank data field and source instruction connected. Chinese layout should leave room for the entry without copying a planned value into it.

Check the returned Chinese file

Inspect the Chinese form at normal viewing size. Keep the actual-entry cell separate from the instruction text, preserve its unit and make sure a line break does not shift the entry to another process step.

Prepare the connected files

Identify whether the source is a blank template or an executed record. Supply units, form references and the required editable or bilingual review format.

Keep the term aligned across your files

Check intended use, warnings, document versions and approved terminology with the project team. Translation supports documentation; it does not establish product approval or regulatory acceptance.

Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.

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