Software implication in pharmaceutical production
How lives can be at risk and the implication of governments
I was talking with one of my coworkers. He was talking of one of his friend that works has a software developer for a company that develop products for drugs pills quality control in the pharmaceutical industry. He tells me that they had some problem with their production. They had many in deep bugs and architecture misconceptions. The result is the inefficacity of their product (we'll call it: PhaQualCon) that lead to the apparition of false results. They have an abnormal level of false results; but the product is already used by pharmaceutical manufacturers. It seem a normal software development problem with normal consequences on the product. It's possibly the problem of many technological projects (and probably all type of projects). My co-worker was saying that pharmaceutical companies have a threshold of false results not to exceed. The problem is that they can accept, refuse and remake some production tests to degrease their false results average. By this practice they can change some numbers to make them acceptable. So, this is not illegal in itself but I don't think that this is really fair. I don't know how the pharmaceutical industry work, but I can imagine that this is normal procedures and habits... Read the full Story...
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