Perrigo Factory Workers Go On Strike On Wages
source More than 350 people who work at a Perrigo manufacturing plant in the Bronx, New York, after contract talks last week failed. The unionized employees returned to the facility after the Labor Day weekend, but found themselves locked out and now find themselves in a stalemate. The plant manufactures various ointments and creams. The […]
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Merck KGgA Cuts Another 1000 Jobs in Germany
source Reeling from setbacks, Merck KGgA is making yet another move to trim its workforce and now plans to eliminate 1,100 jobs in Germany by 2015, which amounts to roughly 10 percent of its workforce in the country. The drug and chemicals maker says the cuts will be made in a “socially acceptable manner,†mainly […]
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Vegetable Oil Used to Make Chinese Antibiotics?
source File this one under ‘hold your nose.’ A subsidiary of the Joincare Pharmaceutical Group reportedly used reprocessed cooking oil – otherwise known as ‘gutter’ oil – to make a widely used antibiotic in China. If the term gutter oil is unfamiliar, this refers to reprocessed oil made from kitchen waste dredged from gutters behind […]
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Sloan-Kettering CEO Finally Settles Humiliating Suit
source In a bid to end a highly embarrassing episode, the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ceo and a University of Pennsylvania cancer research institute have settled a lawsuit that involved sensational charges of allegedly unscrupulous behavior and underhanded dealings centered on cutting-edge research. The terms are being kept confidential, but a licensing arrangement has been inked […]
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Teva Shareholders to Chairman: Fly Business Class!
source There is nothing like compensation and perks to irritate shareholders. Consider Phillip Frost, who is chairman of Teva Pharmaceuticals and is scheduled to receive a 75 percent increase in salary, which would jump to $900,000 annually, as well as another $700,000 for using his private jet. But there is more, Globes reports shareholders are […]
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Consent Decree Coming for Hospira?
source Yet more evidence emerges that Hospira has systemic problems at its various manufacturing facilities. The drugmaker yesterday disclosed that the FDA has issued yet another warning letter, but this time to a plant that was previously not on the agency radar (here is the letter). The plant is based in Costa Rica and makes […]
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GSK Wind Turbines in Scotland Are Unpopular With Locals
source For the past two years, GlaxoSmithKline has worked hard to convince the town of Montrose, Scotland, that constructing a pair of 426-feet high wind turbines is a good idea. Why? The move would lower electrical use on its 45-acre site, which is used to make active pharmaceutical ingredients and, consequently, contribute to cost savings […]
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FDA warns Hospira over Costa Rica infusion pump plant
Hospira Inc said it had received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over quality problems at the Costa Rican plant that makes most of its infusion pumps. The warning, stemming from an April inspection by U.S. regulators, does not restrict production or product shipments from the plant in La Aurora de […]
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Please! – Novartis Is Begging Veterinarians to Stay With Animal Meds
source For months, Novartis has struggled to resolve numerous quality control problems at various manufacturing plants that have caused shortages of many popular over-the-counter medicines, such as Excedrin and Bufferin (back story). But an equally vexing issue continues to plague its Animal Health division, since one of the troubled plants makes several widely used […]
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FDA staff: Abbott’s Humira may not be effective for colitis
Abbott Laboratories Inc. may need to conduct additional trials of Humira to prove the blockbuster drug helps patients with ulcerative colitis, U.S. drug reviewers said on Friday. Staff from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration questioned whether Humira had a real benefit for people with the inflammatory bowel disease who had already tried other treatments. […]
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