CAPA纠正预防措施
CAPA is a structured quality-system process used to investigate nonconformities, determine root causes, and implement corrective and preventive actions so that quality issues do not recur. In life-science translation, it appears in quality manuals, audit responses, and regulatory submission documents; translators must preserve the distinction between correction, corrective action, and preventive action because each has a different compliance meaning and audit significance.
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Where this term appears
CAPA terminology appears in GMP and ISO 13485 documentation, including audit findings, nonconformance reports, root-cause analyses, and effectiveness checks. Translators working on quality-system localization must keep terms aligned with corporate glossaries because regulators and auditors compare source and translated records during inspections, supplier audits, and certification reviews across sites.
Translation checks
A common mistake is conflating CAPA with a simple correction, or using one translated term for correction, corrective action, and preventive action. This obscures whether a quality problem was merely fixed or systematically prevented, which can lead to audit observations and make root-cause documentation unreliable during regulatory review and inspection.
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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Include the source and target languages, file types, intended use, deadline and any approved termbase. Agree handling before sending sensitive files. Acknowledged in 4 hours, quoted in 24.
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