[extropy-chat] HACCP for Humans: Aubrey de Grey on 60 Minutes Sunday, January 1st

Sat Dec 31 18:07:23 UTC 2005

I'm looking forward to seeing the below noted "60Minutes" item   and 
further  formulating what I am describing as "HACCP for humans".
HACCP (Hazard Avoidance at Critical Control Points)  is a well developed 
QA (Quality Assurance)
procedure applied to  everything from food  and drug manufacturing to 
Financial Accounting Practices  which ought to
be applied to the task of proactive management of the maintenance and 
real-time upgrading of the most valuable " processing plant" we know 
of,  the human body.

The 7 steps to implement HACCP are:
1-Identification of the hazardsassessment of internal risks.
2-Determination of the Critical Control Points (CCPs)
3-Determination/Specification of the Critical limits for the CCPs
4-Establishment of procedures to monitor the CCPs
5-Establishment of corrective actions when the CCPs are exceeded
6-Establisment of a system of effective documentation
7-Establishment of procedures to verify the HACCP plan is working.

This could be a lucrative new field for those who want to work in an an 
interdisciplinary environment bridging
Rx medicine, kinesiology, nutrition, dietetics, pharmacy, political 
science, bioethics, economics, biomechanical, to name a few.
A chart describing the inter-related nature of these and other fields 
would be a useful tool to describe this emerging  field.
One could describe this as a "singularity or field  of strategic 
convergence"  for  pure and applied sciences of a reactive and proactive 
nature.

http://www.pharmtech.com/pharmtech/
http://www.pharmtech.com/pharmtech/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=261882
This article on pgs 44-52 0f the Dec 2005 issue documents the rewards to 
those who undertake this field-QA.
PS- when I mentioned the 60-120K USD salary for QA at the GMP 
Agwestbio-PharmEng course Nov.01, at Saskatoon  this is what I was 
referring to.  Also of note is an a recruitment add on pgs 54-55 from 
Bristol-Myers Squibb...
The header is "extending and enhancing human life".

The foundling extropian, transhuman and posthuman futurist think tanks 
have considered creating businesses
centered on corporate consulting for enhancing executive performance, 
with future broad based consumer applications.
Perhaps this is a viable point for theory to meet with practical 
application.

Hughes, James J. wrote:

>>From Longevity Meme: 
>http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/view_news_item.cfm?news_id=2141
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>60 Minutes On Radical Life Extension  
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>Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey - advocate for the Strategies
>for Engineered Negligible Senescence, a path towards and justification
>for real anti-aging medicine - Jay Olshansky and other scientists will
>be appearing on 60 Minutes on Sunday, January 1st in a segment on
>radical life extension: "60 Minutes is planning three stories about
>beginning anew this New Year's Day. ... We'll also take a look at new
>medical research that may lead to people living much longer lives than
>we ever thought possible, maybe even 400 or 500 years. Some doctors
>believe with medical breakthroughs on the horizon, humans can live much
>longer lives." 
>
>"Up Next" at 60 Minutes:
>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml
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Happy New Year

"Singularity or Bust", MFJ