There is no effort or study under way to consolidate the entire facility. We want to see if it makes sense to use the additional capacity in Houston. There are areas across the country where we're looking at total consolidation. Beaumont is not one of them.

It shows just that much more effort toward being dedicated to serving organic and making sure the product is as organic when it's in the counter here as it was when it left the farm.

While all the sub-functions we closely examined in this study are critical to a sound medical affairs effort, we found that research/clinical operations received the most backing from companies. Clearly the sub- function holds great value to medical affairs.

We know the services has not been up to usual standards, but we're working on it.

What that means for customers is that they're going to see a remarkable turnaround time and a return to the normal service standards that we've had prior to Katrina.

All we've done so far is say some of these concepts make sense for further study,