Waters Corporation announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Regulatory Affairs has purchased Waters™ Empower™ Chromatography Data Software and NuGenesis™ Laboratory Management Software (LMS), expanding its deployment of Waters' software to support its medical products testing operations across its five field science laboratories. Both Waters software applications will provide the ORA labs a common platform for acquiring, processing, reporting, and archiving analytical data from a variety of measurement instruments. In addition to supplying the software, Waters will install the computer hardware, assist with instrument qualification and software validation and train site analysts on the operation, configuration, and expansion of the data management system.

The enterprise version of Empower software controls and collects gas and liquid chromatography data from a variety of instrumentation brands throughout a laboratory and is a platform for assembling, reviewing, approving, and publishing data in various reporting formats. The Waters NuGenesis LMS links many types of laboratory data to the business operations of the enterprise with functionality such as sample submission, results review, stability testing, scientific search, multi-vendor software connection, laboratory inventories, data retention and legal hold, and laboratory execution methods.