Schering-Plough looks like the mystery expanding company - South Florida Business Journal:

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While county economic development officials are not allowee to revealthe company's identity - even to the votinvg commissioners - details in the application point to SGP). The qualified target industry applicationseekzs $84,000 over four years, with $16,800 of that from the countyt and the rest from the The incentives would be awarded after the pharmaceutical manufacturingb company adds and maintains 28 jobs with averag e wages of $42,765 plus benefits. The 10,000-square-foot expansionn to the company's existing space would take placse within the district encompassingMiamk Lakes. However, the company is also considering New Tennessee and Massachusettsfor expansion.
According to the projecgt overview, the confidential companhy is a worldwide pharmaceutical company based in the Northeast and was name d to WorkingMother magazine'sd list of the top 100 best places for womejn to work. The company was also nominated for Soutgh Florida ManufacturingAssociation (SFMA) employer of the year and was recognizedf by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)'s Voluntarhy Protection Program. The women's list includedc nine major pharmaceutical companies basee inthat region. Of those, only N.J.
-based Schering-Plough is a member of SFMA - with a Miamji Lakes-area location - and has the OSHA The application says the confidential company has 246 employees and has beenin Miami-Dadee County for 21 years. Schering-Plough acquired Miami-based in 1986. The compant has 240 employees inMiamii Lakes, Schering-Plough spokeswoman Bernadette Beglimn said. "There are no plans for expansiohn ofthat facility," she said. spokesmanb Xavier Gonzalez saidhe couldn't comment on confidentialo projects. He said it would go befor e theCounty Commission's Economic Development and Human Services Committee on June 19.
The committee wouldx have to vote on it without knowinfthe company's identity since the applicant requested confidentiality and the Beaco n Council has a policy that allowes that. TB patient headed for Lantana? An unnamed man, sufferin g from a recently discovered strain ofextremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), may be move to A.G. Holley State Hospital in Lantanqa overthe weekend, according to a source clos to the case. The patientf is being held on a federal protectivdeisolation order, the first one issued sinc e 1963. "We do not have confirmationm that the patient will betransferred here," said Cory spokeswoman for A.G.
Holley, which has had extensived experience dealing with XDRTB cases. The Atlanta-basedc Centers for Disease Control said the unnamecd patient traveled May 12 on Air France flight 385 from Atlantasto Paris, returning from Pari s to Montreal May 24 on Czech Air flighr 104. He was detained when he entered New York by car from A worldwide investigation is under way by numerous healtn agencies to contact and test all the people with whom the infected individualhad contact. The Lantana TB facilityy has treated nine other XDR TB cases in the last Dolling confirmed. "One died from othet complications, but the rest were treated successfully." Dr. Davi A.
Ashkin, Florida's state TB officer and the medicalp executive directorat A.G. Holley, said tuberculosis killsx more people worldwide than any other infectiousdiseasre - more than 2 million a Dr. Ken Castro, tuberculosis chief at the Centers for Disease said there have been 49 documenter XDR TB cases in the United States from 1993through 2006. Hurricanea needn't derail a company's e-mail, even with a directf hit. Gulf Breeze-based is offering a free emergency servicto divert, collect and save any Florida firm'se e-mail when a hurricane threaten s during the 2007 season.
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