Day two of the Pfizer Animal Health Media Event started out in a serious rain storm. I sure wish we’d had some of this back home.

Here’s most of our group getting ready to board the buses this morning to go to our first stop. We went to the Pfizer Global Manufacturing Site to see where they make products and package, label and crate them up for shipment. This was a big building. I mean big. The main corridor that runs through it is 1/4 mile long for example. Let’s just say we worked up an appetite for lunch.

This building doesn’t have windows and is a very controlled environment as you might imagine. The employees are only allowed to bring a family member in for a couple hours on one evening of the year. The rest of the time it’s tight security. We had to put on gowns, hair nets, safety glasses, booties and for those with mustache/beard, a beard net. And that wasn’t the highest level of contaminations protection for many areas we didn’t get to go into.

The amount of investment in a facility like this is really hard to comprehend until you see the fully automated lines where they take the product and bottle or otherwise package it for shipment. One of the things I was impressed with is how they use the same level of control and safety precautions on all products regardless of whether they’re for human or animal use.