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The Car Wash Industry has been under considerable stress lately with their public relations; this time it is over the

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

hiring of illegal aliens and illegal immigrants. Early on the car wash industry tried to attempt to justify the hiring

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

of illegal aliens stating; There Is Just No Way for Us to Know If Someone Is a US Citizen or Not.

Of course we all k

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

now this was a cop-out and they know that they are hiring people who are illegal aliens even though the carwash owners

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

claim that they had some sort of ID and how were they to know if it was fake or not? We all know that they knew.

Ha

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ing been in the carwash industry for some 27 years I can tell you that there is an even bigger issue on the horizon th

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

an illegal immigration for the carwash association’s public relations department to deal with. The bigger issue in the

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

future will be the use of water.

Most of the carwash industry association’s literature and PR pieces say that people

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

should use car washes rather than washing their own car because it saves water. They often claim that a professional

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

carwash recycles their water. The fact is that 60% do not and many of these carwashes use way too much water to wash

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

your car.

Lately people in the carwash industry have been talking about setting an industry standard that would only

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

use 10 gallons of water to wash each car and in my professional opinion this is a good start however, it is not enough

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

. A mobile carwash unit will only use 3.2 gallons water to wash your car and they can do that all day long.

Many car

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

wash owners under Level III Drought conditions will be shut off from municipal water supplies and be forced to dig a w

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ell, which may or may not be allowed and certainly will not be met with any sort of approval from the local residents,

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

as that is also water that must be saved and conserved too.

In reality the carwash industry should have been saving w

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ater all along and every carwash should have a reclaim system unless of course they are washing cars with less than 10

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

gals of water per car. It is easy for any industry to use public relations to proclaim itself good community players

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

, but in reality if they are not; then that same public relations strategy can turn around and bite them in the butt.

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

We need to save water and the carwash industry needs to get on the ball to get it done. Please consider this in 2006

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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