And guess whose salary was bumped 51% in 2020?

i got mine, buddy, so screw you

FDA finds “multiple problems” at Emergent BioSolutions factory that was supposed to manufacture the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. (15 million doses thrown out)

The Baltimore factory hired to help make Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine was dirty, didn’t follow proper manufacturing procedures and had poorly trained staff, resulting in contamination of material going into a batch of shots, U.S. regulators said Wednesday.

The Food and Drug Administration released a statement and a 13-page report detailing findings from its just-completed inspection of the idled Emergent BioSciences factory.

Agency inspectors said a batch of bulk drug substance for J&J’s single-shot vaccine was contaminated with material used to make COVID-19 vaccines for another Emergent client, AstraZeneca. The batch, reportedly enough to make about 15 million J&J vaccine doses, had to be thrown out.

Other problems cited in the inspection report included peeling paint, black and brown residue on factory floors and walls, inadequate cleaning and employees not following procedures to prevent contamination between vaccine batches and ingredients.

This is not a new problem. The FDA has been inspecting, and citing, the company since at least 2017 for a myriad of quality control problems, and last year warned that the company’s vaccine production efforts “must be monitored closely” because of its untrained staff and inept executives. Why that didn’t keep J&J (and AstraZeneca) away I don’t know, but it’s heartening to learn that losers are loved in corporate America, and the head of Emergent BioSolutions, one Robert Kramer, saw his pay in 2020 jump to $5.6 million from 3.7 in 2019.

From what I read, Johnson & Johnson has sent its own people in to run the factory, and I’m sure they’ll straighten things out, but why isn’t Kramer out on the street selling apples? Why is he still president of this company?

In today’s world of big business, Kramer would have been fired had an offensive article he’d penned thirty years ago been discovered, as that Boeing executive was for writing against allowing women in combat back in 1987, but sheer incompetence is rewarded. I don’t like the trend we’re seeing here in the US.