This week FDA placed a temporary ban on drugs made by Ranbaxy — an Indian generic company soon-to-be-owned by the Japanese — for procedural violations in its India plants. This seems odd to me on a few levels.
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A mysterious story came out in a very quiet way earlier this month. Mexico voluntarily suspended its meat exports to the United States.
What is significant about this? This requires some backing up. For one, I used to cover food safety and interational trade in foods, and I’m fascinated with the fact that a […] Read more »
The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), an international group of nations that allow themselves to trade in nuclear goodies in exchange for non-proliferation pledges, have just decided to let India in the clubhouse. That means India will be able to but nuclear equipment and such for its civilian program (but not its military).
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Ratan Tata has threatened to abandon plans for his Tata Nano plant (which will produce the cheapest, smallest car in the world) in West Bengal in the face of protests by farmers who say they were unfairly compensated for their land by the government. Hundreds have blockaded the gates to the plant, in an action […] Read more »
