Business View Magazine - November 2016

156 Business View Magazine - November 2016 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.”