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Northumbria Uni fined £400K after boffin's bad math gives students a near-killer caffeine high

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Re: Contradiction?

"though Rosetta is reportedly suffering from short-term memory loss as a result."

Call me cynical but that possibly sounds like a statement the ambulance chasing lawyer has cooked up, where there's blame there's a fat pay check for fees. Psychological ailments are much harder to disprove than physical ones.

Having said that, that's one almighty fuck up but it does happen in the supposedly safe commercial pharma world. I used to work for an unnamed phamara co and someone cocked up the API dry weight calculation for batch formulation and the checker failed to spot it for a very expensive product, fortunately dissolution and strength testing of the finished product batch revealed too high a dose but £10M had to be flushed down the toilet as a result, due to the number of other tests it never reached the patient.

QC/QA & CGMP, that's why it's there.

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