Travel letter from our QA inspection in Japan
Our QA teams with employees at Taiyo Nippon Sanso
This autumn our QA department visited our supplier of O18-water; Taiyo Nippon Sanso – The Gas Professionals – in Japan.
In addition to a very few words Japanese, we learned that Taiyo Nippon Sanso enrich O18-water by using oxygen distillation, a patented process giving ultra-pure oxygen.
At Norsk medisinsk syklotronsenter AS we utilize a cyclotron to irradiate the stable isotope O18, producing the radioactive isotope F18. This radioactive isotope is used to label target molecules in the production of radiopharmaceuticals. The radiopharmaceuticals are used by hospitals for medical imaging (PET scans) for the diagnosis of cancer and other diseases.
We would like to thank our colleagues at Taiyo Nippon Sanso for the warm welcome and the glimpse into your wonderful culture.
And if anyone wondered, Tokyo is a lovely (and actually not too crowded) city with amazing food. Without a doubt, Japan is a country I look forward to revisiting and exploring further.
