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DUPLIDISK HELPS PHARMACEUTICALS MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE FDA

Every day, Americans come in contact with a host of products regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - everything from the most common food ingredients to complex medical and surgical devices, lifesaving drugs, and radiation-emitting consumer and medical products. In fact, FDA-regulated products account for more than 20 cents of every dollar spent in the United States.

The FDA s mission is to promote and protect the public health by helping safe and effective products reach the market in a timely way, and by monitoring products for continued safety after they are in use.

The pharmaceutical drug manufacturing industry must adhere to strict regulations imposed by the FDA in meeting data collection and retention control requirements.

Scott Errthum of Fluid Air Inc. in Aurora, Illinois, an OEM and systems integrator of pharmaceutical processing equipment, comments, Our systems are responsible for constant real-time data collection. The data we collect must be retained by our customers to satisfy FDA requirements should there be any questions concerning the final product. These questions could be audits of a current drug product used in treatment, or products in clinical trials awaiting final FDA approval .

A simple, cost-effective solution guaranteeing that Fluid Air would avoid system failure needed to be adopted quickly. Fluid Air identified that the weakest point in its system was the hard drive. They decided, after much research, to use DupliDisk to eliminate the fear of hard drive failures, because it didn't require special drivers, was OS independent and extremely cost effective.

Fluid Air originally used the DupliDisk PCI slot version and then switched to the MicroRAID version when it was launched, as they found this solution was more appropriate for their industrial applications. MicroRAID is ideal for environments that are restricted on space or where no PCI slots are available. Now, Fluid Air supplies a DupliDisk product in every system they sell and manufacture.

Using patented technology, DupliDisk writes data both to your original drive and to a backup drive at the same time. Each time you save a document or make a change, the same action occurs simultaneously on both the primary and the mirror drives. The benefit is that there is no delay time and writes are automatic. There is also no issue of having to copy the second drive from the first. Should a hard drive fail, the DupliDisk sounds an alarm and automatically switches all operations to the other drive. Your system continues to operate with no downtime or loss of data.

So the next time you pick up a drug and look at the label at the back of the product, think about DupliDisk, how it has secured the processing system and guaranteed a perfect product every time for your comfort and well being.