Re:Bottle of Lies
by credit_guy on Thursday June 06, 2019 @06:50PM
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> share tools (hammers, wrenches, etc) across manufacturing lines used for different drugs
I never would’ve guessed that they use hammers and wrenches to manufacture drugs.
My reading of the above is that the hammers and wrenches are used indirectly, i.e., to maintain the equipment on the lines.
Re:Bottle of Lies
by xkcd-sucks on Thursday June 06, 2019 @09:08PM
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I once attended a talk by a Formulations guy at I think Vertex. They had an incident where one of their production facilities made the wrong crystalline isoform and nobody could figure out why. It eventually ended up being related to the interior paint of the facility.
One example he said was that the FDA decided that they couldn't share tools (hammers, wrenches, etc) across manufacturing lines used for different drugs. This was supposedly to prevent cross contamination of the drugs. Generics made in India and China don't have to compete with such high standards.