A month ago, former-NSA-employee turned whistleblower: Ed Snowden, revealed far-reaching surveillance capabilities of the National Security Agency, specifically: metadata collection.
Sort of weird to refer to something that way, but here's a simple example:
In fact, our OSI PI historian search engine: ZOOMS stands for Zymergi Object-Oriented Metadata Search.
Your FOIA request is logged in a database and your FOIA request can be requested like any other FDA document.
This means:
Your business dealings as they pertain to the FDA are as public as your personal life is to the NSA.
If you're requesting actual documents, the data will be redacted; however, the log of the requests (the metadata) is public and available in sans redaction.
This is why our customer, FDAzilla, built the world's largest 483 store. When you buy 483s from FDAzilla, you get the product without having to give up who you are and therefore business information you'd rather not have shared.
And if you're interested in more than just 483s, they have a compliance monitoring service that's built to suit your needs.
Once you purchase through FDAzilla, it is true that they now have a record of your information; but the difference is that they are not compelled by law to share it to the public as the FDA is through the Freedom of Information Act.
On top of anonymously getting information, you also get it instantly...(which we all know from FDA FOIA experience, isn't necessarily on your timeline).
What is Metadata?
Metadata refers to data about the data.Sort of weird to refer to something that way, but here's a simple example:
In fact, our OSI PI historian search engine: ZOOMS stands for Zymergi Object-Oriented Metadata Search.
- The data itself is time-series data.
- The metadata is all the information that describes it:
"V7410 pH" is metadata that our search engine archives.
What does this have to do with biotech manufacturing?
Well, our market is regulated by a federal agency called the FDA, and when you contact them up to request information (called an FOIA request "Freedom of Information Act"), they don't just serve up the documents, charge you and be on your respective ways:Your FOIA request is logged in a database and your FOIA request can be requested like any other FDA document.
This means:
Your business dealings as they pertain to the FDA are as public as your personal life is to the NSA.
- If you think Amgen wants to buy Onyx but you don't have access to insider information? Send an FOIA to the FDA asking for all recent documents requested by Amgen. If Amgen is doing due diligence on the deal, they may leave a trail there.
- If you thought Allergan was going to buy MAP Pharmaceuticals and wanted to test your hypothesis, send an FOIA to request the Allergan metadata.
If you're requesting actual documents, the data will be redacted; however, the log of the requests (the metadata) is public and available in sans redaction.
This is why our customer, FDAzilla, built the world's largest 483 store. When you buy 483s from FDAzilla, you get the product without having to give up who you are and therefore business information you'd rather not have shared. And if you're interested in more than just 483s, they have a compliance monitoring service that's built to suit your needs.
Once you purchase through FDAzilla, it is true that they now have a record of your information; but the difference is that they are not compelled by law to share it to the public as the FDA is through the Freedom of Information Act.
On top of anonymously getting information, you also get it instantly...(which we all know from FDA FOIA experience, isn't necessarily on your timeline).
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