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Examples of employee malfeasance can be better understood when broken down into basic occupation types and categories. By doing so, the underlying principles that contribute to acts of fraud, theft and embezzlement become evident: one must have access, opportunity and motivation.

Accounting/ Bookkeeping

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

• Ghost companies
• Fictitious employees
• Fictitious or inflated invoices
• "Cooking the books" inflating and skimming from accounts
• Overlapping accounts

Automobile and Service Mechanics
• Billing customer for unneeded repairs
• Failing to do repairs
• Subs

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

Examples of combination products may in

ituting inferior parts and products for premium charges
• Theft of cash by not reporting invoices to garage
• Theft from customer's cars
• Intentionally causing additional damages to vehicles
• Stealing and using customers' credit card numbers
• Billing customer and warranty center

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

for same problem
• Selling or using drugs

Bartenders
• Not ringing up sales and keeping the money
• Overcharging customers and keeping the difference
• Under or over-pour
• Hiding inventory discrepancies by putting water in liquor
• Theft of liquor and other merchandis

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

• Giving away liquor and merchandise
• Steal tips from other employees
• Selling or using drugs
• Stealing and using customers' credit card numbers

Computer Personnel
• Theft of data
• Software piracy and theft
• Erasing or causing damage to files with viruses

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

Combination pro

• Embezzlement techniques used to round off small amounts of money from accounts over a long period of time or to otherwise divert funds
• Stealing hardware such as drives or memory modules
• Unauthorized Internet activity

Drivers
• Falsify expense and mileage reports
• Theft of t

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

ime and payroll while making unauthorized stops
• Stealing or shorting deliveries
• Stealing from the warehouse
• Selling or using drugs
• Unauthorized use of delivery vehicle (business and personal)
• Creating then selling delivery overages
• Unreported vehicle damage or mov

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

ng citations

Executives and Corporate Professionals
• Falsifying profit and productivity reports
• Corporate espionage
• Falsify expense and mileage reports
• Conflict of interest situations resulting in kickbacks

Gas Station and Convenience Store Personnel
• Not ringing

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

up sales and keeping the money
• Overcharging customers and keeping the difference
• Selling or using drugs
• Falsify refunds and keeping the cash
• Theft of cash or merchandise
• Giving away merchandise
• Unauthorized discounts
• Stealing and using customers' credit ca

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

d numbers

Hospital and Nursing-Home Personnel
• Theft from or physical abuse of patients
• Stealing, selling or using drugs
• Theft of equipment, food or supplies

Hotel and Motel Staff
• Failing to ring-up room bookings and keeping the money
• Theft of guest property

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

• Stealing and using customers' credit card numbers
• Overcharging customers and keeping the difference
• Offering or selling drugs or other illegal activities such as prostitution
• Theft of cash, food or supplies

Maintenance Personnel
• Corporate espionage
• Selling or usi

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

Following aspects would a

ng drugs
• Theft of equipment, food or supplies
• Sleeping on the job

Managers and Supervisors
• Fictitious employees
• Fictitious or inflated invoices
• Selling or using drugs
• Falsify expense and mileage reports
• Conflict of interest situations resulting in kic

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

backs
• Theft from company
• Falsifying profit and productivity reports
• Selling or using drugs
• Corporate espionage

Marketing and Public Relations Employees
• Falsifying profit and productivity reports
• Corporate espionage
• Falsify expense and mileage reports<

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

br> • Conflict of interest situations resulting in kickbacks
• Theft from company
• Fictitious or inflated invoices

Restaurant Employees
• Not ringing up sales and keeping the money
• Stealing and using customers' credit card numbers
• Overcharging customers and keeping the

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

ifference
• Steal tips from other employees
• Theft of time and payroll
• Theft of food inventory
• Falsifying refunds
• Under-ringing or unauthorized discounts

Sales Clerks
• Not ringing up sales and keeping the money
• Stealing and using customers' credit card nu

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

bers
• Overcharging customers and keeping the difference
• Falsify time records
• Under-ringing or unauthorized discounts
• Theft of inventory
• Purposefully damages inventory or falsify damage records to keep items
• Falsify refunds and keeping the cash
• Theft of cash

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

or merchandise
• Writing and cashing personal checks without sufficient funds to do so

Administrative and Clerical Associates
• Theft of data
• Software piracy and theft
• Erasing or causing damage to files with viruses
• Falsifying profit and productivity reports
• Cor

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

orate espionage
• Theft from petty cash
• Falsify time records

Cashiers
• Not ringing up sales and keeping the money
• Stealing and using customers' credit card numbers
• Overcharging customers and keeping the difference
• Falsify time records
• Under-ringing or un

.

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

authorized discounts
• Falsify refunds and keeping the cash
• Theft of cash and deposits

Warehouse Personnel
• Theft of inventory
• Purposefully damages inventory or falsify damage records to keep items
• Falsify time records
• Phony invoices or accounts

Security an

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

Loss Prevention Staff
• Falsify reports and logs
• Sleeping on the clock
• Thefts from lost and found or other property areas
• Drugs or alcohol on duty
• Unauthorized use of force or customer abuses
• Accepting bribes
• Corporate espionage
• Withhold evidence

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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