COMMERCIAL INFORMATION

As shown in Appendix II there is a multitude of books concerning various aspects of additives in polymers (either commercial information or technical/scientific principles). However, in the past, only a fairly restricted... 

Malting/fermenting aid, 72 32 Malting industry, commercial information on, 75 534... 

Substances supplied at below 10 kg per annum are exempt from notification, but individual Member States may require reporting of technical and commercial information. 

In a decision written by Justice Harry Blackmun, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal and ruled against the Virginia State Board of Pharmacy. The ruling concluded that commercial speech has some protection under the First Amendment, particularly in relation to the right of citizens to receive information. Because the individual consumer and society in general may have strong interests in the free flow of commercial information, even commercial speech that has an economic rather than a political or artistic motivation deserves protection. Indeed, such information is crucial to the... 

The development of customer accounts on a multisite, national, or international basis improves vendor revenues and limits competition. The largest vendors employ this strategy to eliminate those competitors who lack the financial or people resources to undertake water treatment contracts on such a scale. The long-term vendor benefits, when dealing with poor buyers, is that successful vendors can control significant commercial information, limiting the abilities of competitors to bid effectively in subsequent contracts and effectively creating a monopoly. 

Service companies are always pleased to assist prospective buyers by providing specifications that are then written into a forthcoming water treatment bid request. This facility can be of genuine benefit to the buyer. However, and needless to say, where no buyer control is exercised, the temptation exists either to write the requirements tightly around the service company s products or to restrict the disclosure of certain operational and commercial information critical to competitors in their bid-price calculations. This practice can occur when the time comes to offer an existing tender for re-bid, and an existing vendor may risk losing its account. 

Disclosure of Information to Foreign Regulators—Final Rule, Federal Register, March 7,2000. Public Information Communications with State and Foreign Government Officials. The rule states that the FDA may disclose confidential commercial information to international organizations only with the consent of the person who submitted the information to the FDA. 

Commercial information regarding the application of machine-produced electrons is closely held, but the following are a few examples of their use ... 

The FDA has confirmed this interpretation in its response to petitions filed regarding FOPs (both in general and targeted to specific applications). The FDA has clearly said, the use of the 505(b)(2) pathway does not entail disclosure of trade secret or confidential commercial information, nor does it involve unauthorized reliance on such data [18]. 

Contemporary science, particularly the biosciences, is afflicted by a flood of information that can only be coped with by focusing one s interests and exploiting modern methods of literature searching. literature searches are essentially of two types retrospective, and current awareness. In the former case, searches will usually be based on printed or CD-stored versions of commercial information services in the latter, computer-based literature searches are the method of choice. 

Contract manufacturers can be identified by their specialty through the use of commercial information sources and by review of advertisements in trade journals.f Commercial information sources solicit profiles of contract manufacturers for their databases. Contract manufacturers usually advertise their services in journals having the widest circulation within an industry. Many of these journals print annual buyer s. 

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