Many foreign plants have never been inspected.
Not so in foreign plants.
That certification is followed by annual audits and random visits to foreign plants.
But these foreign plants, which lack defences against African pathogens, have fared poorly.
The world today is very different — just look at all the foreign plants and animals.
JENNIFER RIGONI, Apple's worldwide supply demand manager until 2010, on the advantages of using foreign plants.
The increasing importation of foreign plants also brought with it opportunities for a large-scale transformation.
For logistical reasons, the agency warns foreign plants when its inspectors intend to visit, something not done domestically.
To ensure the safety of imported drugs, the F.D.A. relies almost entirely on its own inspections of foreign plants.
But their foreign plants need this mothering less than they used to: three-quarters of Japanese-owned foreign plants were at the same technical level as domestic ones in 2008, up from about half in 1996, says Nomura.
In this paper, we study the role of vertical product differentiation in the decision to allocate production between domestic and foreign plants.
