Everything is fine at Merck

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Tue, 04/29/2008 - 10:36

At "The wages of treating employees in biomedicine as expendible assets " and "Pharma Union cowed into submission ?" I called attention to an FDA inspection report showing forty nine deficiencies in vaccine manufacturing more consistent with an upstart company than the world's finest.

Seasoned epxerts opined that some of the issues were consistent with overwork, a theory corroborated by a Merck union leader's assertion that its members were being asked to "do more with less."

However,...


 

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