Their mission is to help companies plant information about their brands in living rooms, schools and other crevices that are difficult for corporate America to infiltrate.
In a letter sent Wednesday to the company, the agency alleged that data submitted from the Ranbaxy plant contained falsified information -- including lies that safety tests were conducted, lies that drugs had been kept at room temperature when in fact they had been stored in refrigerators, and lies about the shelf life of some drugs.
Grow grapes for wine, and officials must approve everything, from where and when you plant new vines to what information goes on the label you put on the bottle.
The local workforce as a whole has attracted the attention of authorities ever since Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said last Monday that the 32 militants had obtained information about the plant's workings and arrived with a former driver from the facility.
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Air Force leaders believe strongly that secrecy enhances the value of whatever aircraft eventually emerges from the plant, because potential enemies will lack information needed to defend against it.
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"It takes the paper and pencil and re-entry out of it, " said Jeff Painter, information specialist for the WSDA's plant protection division.
Japanese media have became more critical of Prime Minister Naoto Kan's handling of the disaster, and have accused both the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co of failing to provide enough information on the incident.
There is no verified information on the activity of Germans in the Libyan chemical weapons plant.
Generally, the participants at the FERC hearings all expressed a preference for better sharing of information concerning pipeline capacity scheduled for power generation, individual power plant burn rates, fast notification of major operational changes, and coordination of maintenance work to both systems.
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They are charged with ensuring that plant owners and operators as well as state and local officials are equipped with the information and the tools they need to evacuate those within a 10-mile radius of an accident.
Du Pont Co. has an information-rich Web site that, for example, lists the names, addresses, telephone numbers and plant managers for manufacturers of some of its products.
But as new sequencing and information technologies develop, and the cost and speed of large-scale projects fall, more such international plant initiatives may well find their way on to the menu.
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