What is the role of the sponsor's usual contract QA in coordinating between facilities?

• A. It retains monitoring responsibility and determines arrangements
• B. It has no role
• C. It only audits after submission
• D. It handles advertising

Answer: (A)

In GLP, the sponsor's QA function provides independent quality oversight across all facilities involved in a study. It retains overall monitoring responsibility and decides how QA activities are arranged among sites—what gets monitored, when, by whom, and how findings and corrective actions are shared. This coordination across facilities helps ensure the study stays in compliance with the protocol, SOPs, and GLP requirements, and that information flows to address issues consistently. QA activities occur throughout the study, not just after submission, and the role does not include advertising.