Corrective and Preventive Action or commonly known as CAPA is a concept within Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). Objective of CAPA is to perform a systematic investigation of discrepancies in order to prevent them from resurfacing. Systematic investigation of the failure incident helps to track down the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented CAPA.CAPA is a key element to QMS which is focused to continual improvement and incessant customer satisfaction. CA or the corrective action, on one hand, is intended to find out the root cause of nonconformance while on the other hand, PA or the preventive action is chalking out a plan to prevent a problem from surfacing again in the future.
