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tently produce a product meeting its pre-determined
specifications and quality attributes through proper
design, monitoring and control. We are leveraging that
capability,” he says, “as a long-standing iodine de-
rivative manufacturing company that operates under
cGMP, and we’re registered with the FDA for both drug
and food products.”
Wachnowsky cites a specific example of how Deepwa-
ter is extending its product portfolio: “Several years
ago melamine was discovered in some pet food.”
(Melamine is a white, crystalline compound that is
mostly used in making plastics.) “This resulted in real
problems – the pet food poisoned a lot of dogs and
cats. As a result, in 2011 the US Congress passed the
Food Modernization Safety Act (FSMA), which requires
higher levels of raw material traceability, and the re-
quired pet food and animal feed producers to meet
the same requirements as food and pharmaceutical
producers do. One of the things that Deepwater can
provide, being a cGMP and a FDA registered facility,
is FSMA compliance for our process and traceability
of our products. We have three qualified iodine supply
sources from three different regions of the world that
are tracked. We can guarantee the traceability of our
iodine sources as well as other materials used in our
process back to the ground. This is the important point
we stress with new customers as the advantage of do-
ing business with Deepwater Chemicals.”
