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title: "21 CFR §11.70"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-11.70"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "1"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "A"

subchapter_subject: "GENERAL"

part_code: "11"

part_subject: "ELECTRONIC RECORDS; ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES"

subpart_code: "B"

subpart_subject: "Electronic Records"

section_number: "11.70"

section_subject: "Signature/record linking."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 11.70"

title_name: "Title 21"

title_subject: "Food and Drugs"

parts_covered: "Parts 1 to 99"

revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"

publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"

contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"

publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"

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Electronic signatures and handwritten signatures executed to electronic records shall be linked to their respective electronic records to ensure that the signatures cannot be excised, copied, or otherwise transferred to falsify an electronic record by ordinary means.

§11.70 - Signature/record linking.