Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Minneapolis, has opened a new product contamination evaluation facility in Sugar Land, Texas, to help food and pharmaceutical manufacturers address safety and quality issues.
Called Product Assurance Services and Solutions (PASS), the facility offers rapid response for companies requiring thorough offsite packaged product evaluation due to foreign object contamination concerns. Additionally, it can review products for processing anomalies (such as clumps) as well as missing components (empty pharmaceutical blisters, partially-filled candy trays, etc.).