ML20030C688
| ML20030C688 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Vallecitos File:GEH Hitachi icon.png |
| Issue date: | 05/29/1981 |
| From: | Clifton J DAINABOT RADIOISOTOPE LABORATORIES, INC. |
| To: | NRC |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8108270697 | |
| Download: ML20030C688 (2) | |
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STATEMENT 1.
Dainabot Radioisotops Laboratories, Ltd., as one of the largest manufacturers of in vivo radio-pharmaceuticals in Japan, has a great responsibility to meet the health care needs of the people in Japan, and would have a great dependence on General Electric as a major upplier for Mo-99 radioisotope which served as a source of Tc-99m.
2.
The suspension of the supply of materials from GETR over the last 3 1/2 years had a most serious impact on Dainabot's operations.
In order to fulfill our social responsibility, we were forced to procure materials through a variety of alternative suppliers.
As could be expected, there were various difficulties with this procedure as it related to a timely and stable supply, difference in specifications and increased costs for materials and manufacturing.
3.
The increase in material costs had a very adverse effect on the reasonable profitability of our Tc-99m product line.
In spite of every ef fort to achieve cost reductions and productivity improvements, we were not successful in re-l covering the costs associated with the increase in material l
costs, and in fact, we were obliged to abandon one item l
of products earlier made from N-Gamma-Mo-99 due to continu-I ous burdens.
4.
Japan, as in most countries of the world, is very concerned about the increasing costs of the health care.
The nature of this concern and the importance and influence of the national health insurance system make it impossible to shift part of the cost increase to the end users.
5.
From a broader viewpoint, both the supply services, the l
quality and the price that General Electric provided to us were reasonable ones and contributed valuably to many customers in our territory.
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requirements for the product sot.rces and Japan's inadequacy to selfsupport required materials, the role that GETR, possessing a geographical merit in the west of U.S. A.
in particular, is expected to play for the Japanese radio-pharmaceutical industry should remain valuable.
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