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In this week's C&EN, a worthwhile article from Jean-François Tremblay on the Indian pharmaceutical industry and how it is doing. It's worth watching the two-minute video that he was able to shoot at the Cipla plant. To me, it looks like a fairly typical API plant (I note that I've not been to very many.)

However, in his article, a very incongruent picture:


It took me about 10 minutes to figure out why this picture looks instantly weird to me. Here it is:

• The operator is wearing an apron instead of a fire-resistant Nomex suit. 
• The "green gloves" are usually used to handle product, but there's no product in sight. 
• He's wearing a half-face respirator, but again, no product in sight. 
• The apron is an interesting choice -- I don't normally see those in pictures of plant operators. 
• Finally (and most incongruous to me), where's his hard hat?