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"If your eyes, nose or throat are irritated, or you have a stuffy nose, headaches or chronic fatigue, you could be living in one."

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According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

orage of solvents, cleaners, paints and fuels are some of the more common and easily identifiable causes of environmental illnesses in Canadian homes.

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; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ULT to diagnose. In more than one case, improperly constructed stairwells in attached garages have led to exhaust fumes entering the basement. These fumes can be drawn into a r

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

eturn air duct and distributed throughout the house by the forced-air heating system. In lower concentrations, you may not be able to smell the fumes, but they can lead to head

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ches, fatigue and nausea.

BURNING LUNGS AND DIZZINESS are among the complaints from residents of homes with new carpeting. Most manufactured products go through a period of of

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

-gassing following production, and the shorter the time between manufacture and installation in your home, the worse the effect. Many people report similar symptoms after only

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

a few minutes in a furniture, carpeting or hardware store.

DURING THE OIL CRISIS in the early 1970's, we started to build houses to be airtight, and recyled indoor air to lowe

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

heating and cooling costs. Pollutants can build up and cause sick-building syndrome (SBS), a litany of symptoms including itchy eyes, stuffy nose, fatigue, headaches and inabi

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

ity to concentrate.

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) reports that about one in every three new or renovated buildings is "sick". An Ontario Ministry of the Environment stud

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

y conducted in 1990 concluded "indoor air quality appears to be two to five times worse than outdoor air quality".

WITH BUILDING ENVELOPES SEALED TIGHT, the use of air conditi

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ners has increased, and in some homes as much as 90 percent of the air is recylcled. Hazardous substances build up in the air - cleaning solutions, radon gas from the earth, fo

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

maldehyde from manufactured items, hydrocarbons from wood heating, and a list as long as your arm from tobacco smoke. Left unattended, the damp interiors and dirty filters of a

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

ir conditioners become breeding grounds for fungi and bacteria, which are then distributed throughout the house. In 1976 a bacteria entered the air conditioning system of a hot

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

l in Philadelphia, killing 29 people at a Legion convention (it was labelled Legionaire's Desease).

THE BOTTOM LINE: How do you know if your house is sick? Health experts agre

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

that if more than one person in the family complains of the same symptoms, or if symptoms in even one person disappear when they leave the home - you have a problem. When a ho

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

use is suspect, you should sniff the air for odors upon entry from outdoors, and look for telltale signs like blocked air ducts,

smudges around supply or return diffusers, mou

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

dy basements or closets, and elevated humidity levels. Ensure an adequate exchange of air - ideally, the entire volume of air in a home should be fully exchanged with outdoor a

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

r every two hours. This is difficult to measure, but if your home is tightly sealed and you don't have some sort of mechanical ventilator (HRV, etc.) you're quite likely breath

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

ing stale air.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Environment General Information
Ministry of the Environment
District Office
470 Dundas Street East
Belleville, Ontari

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

FOR FREE LITERATURE:

CMHC Publications
Canada Mortage & Housing Corp.
700 Montreal Road,
Kingston, Ontario
K1A 0P7

Kingston CMHC area rep. 1-613-547-006

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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