Archives for April 12, 2004

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FDA plans meeting to go over 21 CFR Part 11

The US Food and Drug Administration is planning to hold a meeting in June to re-examine its regulations on electronic records and signatures, used to generate the audit trail in the food and drug industries, to examine whether some elements are...

GE completes Amersham acquisition

General Electric has completed its €8.1 billion acquisition of UK healthcare company Amersham, promising to create a new company that will 'change the face of healthcare,' according to GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt.

Transgenics - on the cusp of fulfilling promise?

Despite years of promises, there is still not a single product on the market that has been manufactured in a genetically-engineered organism. But a soon-to-be released market report maintains that the floodgates are about to open, driving an industry...