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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on 11-19-2008
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
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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on 11-16-2008
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
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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on 11-14-2008
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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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on 11-02-2008
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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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on 10-26-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, FDA, China, Melamine, candy, contaminated food, Clinton, tainted milk products, Andrew Eschenbach
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...
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...