Proffessionals

[Mount Suribachi]

What's the first most regulated industry on Earth?

Aviation.

[Ser Clegane]

I'm a research analyst covering the chemical industry for a consulting company

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Aviation.

Ah, makes sense.

[Hosakawa Tito]

What's the first most regulated industry on Earth?

In the US, I would say the firearms industry.

[JAG]

I am a student, uni in September to study Politics and International Relations.

[Tribesman]

Stonemason/bricklayer

[Mount Suribachi]

In the US, I would say the firearms industry.

GAH!

I spit on your puny firearms regulations!

GAH!



(but lets not go into another arms control debate, eh?)

Its the US Food and Drug Administration that drives the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry - its by far the biggest market in the world and if you wanna sell your stuff there, you gotta meet the FDA's standards. As far as the pharmaceutical industry is concerned, God sits at the feet of the FDA.

[SwordsMaster]

As far as the pharmaceutical industry is concerned, God sits at the feet of the FDA.

I read somewhere, that there have been no new antibiotics developed since 1980s, while the amount of microbia-bacteria related diseases keeps raising. They say now that even stomach cancer and some ulceras are bacterias´fault.....

Is the research really oriented in some other direction?

Please note, Im not critizising or trying to raise a debate, just curiosity. I´m somewhat of a chemist too....

[Hosakawa Tito]

GAH!

I spit on your puny firearms regulations!

GAH!



(but lets not go into another arms control debate, eh?)

Its the US Food and Drug Administration that drives the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry - its by far the biggest market in the world and if you wanna sell your stuff there, you gotta meet the FDA's standards. As far as the pharmaceutical industry is concerned, God sits at the feet of the FDA.

The ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms) and each states laws, about 20,000 some statutes, beg to differ.

[Beirut]

Stonemason/bricklayer

Really? I've done some stone work myself, though I'm sure not to your standards. All the best stone work in my small town was done by Europeans. And I've done lots of foundation repairs and footings.

But my evil speciality is in-ground cement support posts for house extensions and the like. My posts will last as long as the pyramids they will.

[Devastatin Dave]

I am a student, uni in September to study Politics and International Relations.

God help us all!!!

[discovery1]

I am a high school student. Graduate in late May will go off to under grad school in Sept. likely to study Aerospace Engineering.

[Mount Suribachi]

I read somewhere, that there have been no new antibiotics developed since 1980s, while the amount of microbia-bacteria related diseases keeps raising. They say now that even stomach cancer and some ulceras are bacterias´fault.....

Is the research really oriented in some other direction?

Please note, Im not critizising or trying to raise a debate, just curiosity. I´m somewhat of a chemist too....

Hmm, well antiobiotics isn't really my companies field, we're more into cancer and heart disease, but it was for one of my former employers I remember talking to some GPs a few years back and they were saying a lot of the problem is that antibiotics are so prevalent today and that many bacteria are now resistant to antibiotics - my job at the time was to test the level of antibiotics in chicken feed and they were telling me off for getting the things in the food chain at the beginning. And of course you have GPs prescribing antibiotics for patients who have viruses just to shut them up, which doesn't help either. As for research into anti-biotics, dunno, can't help you there.

[Tribesman]

My posts will last as long as the pyramids they will.
Not quite Beirut , depending on the chemical balance in the soil they will start to deteriorate after roughly 26years .
BTW you could use your chainsaws on some stonework , but it can be very dangerous .

[The_Emperor]

IT Admin. overworked & underpaid... Yet I enjoy my job... (well most of the time )

[Komutan]

Electronics student. I am trying to graduate in 2006...

[Sigurd]

I am a system consultant; in my company that means I am in development.
Currently I am involved in a project building an automatic tally system for a North-Sea drilling rig. That is; a system that keeps control over the length of the pipe-string from the floating rig to the sea bottom and below into the oil reservoirs.

Definition of work: planning,designing,building and implementing IT-systems.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

CS student.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

The kid with the high IQ who sleeps in class, and the official history consultant of my class(don't even have a degree! Yet.....).

[English assassin]

I'm a lawyer. Now I specialise in administrative/constitutional, with a bit of human rights when its unavoidable. Almost all advisory work with very little litigation thank god.

I studied molecular biology though and still occasionally regret the change.

[SwordsMaster]

I'm a lawyer. Now I specialise in administrative/constitutional, with a bit of human rights when its unavoidable. Almost all advisory work with very little litigation thank god.

I studied molecular biology though and still occasionally regret the change.

I have to reckon its quite a change, from biology to law....

[English assassin]

I have to reckon its quite a change, from biology to law....

Well, law is a lot easier, obviously. Not as interesting though.

Mind you I finished my degree before "big biology" really got going. How interesting it is spending all day trawling gene databases for homologies I don't know. Biochemistry has changed out of all recognition in the last ten years.