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Here’s the ribbon breaking ceremony picture. Let’s all hope this is a success and hopefully some new technology will enter the picture as well with remote batch monitoring of products manufactured in China and other locations in the world. There is only so much an in person visit can cover...
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Pharma, FDA, China, Outsourcing, Tainted Food, food contamination, food safety, busines intelligence software, server banks, import/exports, FDA inspections
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Melamine, a chemical used as a flame retardant is used to make cooking utensils and industrial coatings, is rich in nitrogen; it makes an attractive low-cost additive to milk and other foods; as nitrogen registers as protein on many routine tests . This is why it is so popular as at created the...
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, FDA, Business Intelligence, China, tainted milk, Melamine, Food products, Congress Pharma, phamaceutical plant inspections, FDA funding
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With the backlash the FDA has sustained this last year, a lot of it related to lack of technology and not being up to par, perhaps this will turn out to be a productive trip. Earlier I posted about remote monitoring and how technology could expand and help with monitoring food products, when you...
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I have created quite a few posts on the FDA relative to the same and similar subjects, mainly lack of technology for so long from my corner of the world being this is what I do. Key statement here relates to “30 years ago” which would indicate we were operating out of the70s, but I think it goes...
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Hillary Clinton is not satisfied with the recent handling of the melamine situation and writes to Dr. Eschenbach to expand the efforts as more food products and items may still exist on store shelves. Again, I go back to what I have mentioned before, all food and drug products need to be labeled...
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It appears the melamine is in the feed that was fed to the chickens, so it makes one wonder how far does the melamine go and how far back can you track it. First it was the milk products with adding melamine to make the nutritional values look better and now it goes back to the feed given to the...
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We just read about China and now India by the end of the year. With all the recent problems in China with both food and Pharma products, they are first. There will be 10 offices total and as mentioned in the post regarding China, some of this is to be outsourced. This has really been...
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We all may complain and wonder about the processes of the FDA, but when you read stories like this one, it does make you wonder about the research and development in other countries and how thorough the process is, this in light of all the contaminated milk products on the market as well coming from...
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Some of the duties will be outsourced, but under the control of a local office, and portions of this provision will need an act of Congress, so I might guess now’s the time, or after the election maybe to tackle this issue. I would also like to see labels on every product stating the city, origin...
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The reason for mentioning this is that a vendor of a food product could have a shipping document that shows a US point of shipping, in other words, the delivery document that is signed at the time of delivery on “blind” shipments would not indicate to the vendor where the product originated, as well...
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More products recalled, and this appears to not affect the US, but who knows for sure anymore. Again, I go back to having every product that is consumable, drugs included to be labeled for the city, state, and country of origin. This is a perfect example here where the only thing we have...
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Good news to help some of the financially strapped hospitals here in California, but how much will each one actually see, as 11.8 million among 480 hospitals is not a huge chunk of change. In the meantime though, the current woes for WellPoint continue over stiffer penalties. One report from last...