Business Notebook

Nephron job fair delayed

No job hiring fair is imminent for the plant Nephron Pharmaceuticals plans to open near Cayce, company office say. The event will be held closer to opening the facility in mid-2013, officials said. A company spokesman said previously it could happen as soon as February.

Boeing gets new supplier

CHARLESTON Boeing South Carolina’s supply chain has a new link. Key Logistics Solutions has taken up 50,000 square feet in a Hanahan warehouse also occupied by another Boeing logistics contractor. The Duluth, Ga.-based company will handle the delivery of tools, maintenance parts and hazardous materials for Boeing Co.’s 787 factory at Charleston International Airport, a senior company executive said Thursday after the deal was announced. Key will mark the launch of its 26-employee operation with several Boeing executives and local politicians at New Breed Logistics’ Magi Road warehouse Monday, according to a press release. Key was formed in 2001 and opened its first facility on Appian Way in North Charleston to serve the Robert Bosch automotive parts plant on Dorchester Road, Grant said. The company, which now has 400 employees company-wide, then set up 11 other operations across the Eastern United States, including one in Laurens.

Report: Electronic records still need work

WASHINGTON America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system’s conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue. Hospitals and doctors’ offices increasingly are going digital, the Bipartisan Policy Center says in a report released Friday. But there’s been little progress getting the computer systems to talk to one another, exchanging data the way financial companies do. At the consumer level, few people maintain a personal health record on their laptop or electronic tablet, partly due to concerns about privacy, security and accuracy that the government hasn’t resolved.

Cybersecurity efforts trigger privacy concerns

WASHINGTON The federal government’s plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans’ civil liberties. In a report released Friday, The Constitution Project warns that as the Obama administration partners more with the energy, financial, communications and health care industries to monitor and protect networks, sensitive personal information of people who work for or communicate with those companies could be improperly or inadvertently disclosed. While the government may have good intentions, it “runs the risk of establishing a program akin to wiretapping all network users’ communications,” the nonpartisan legal think tank says.

FDA halts orange juice imports to test for fungicide

WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration has detained several shipments of imported orange juice after finding traces of an illegal fungicide. The government says the juice is safe to drink. But the fungicide, carbendazim, is not approved for use in the United States, so any juice that contains traces of it must be detained. It is used in other countries to combat mold on orange trees. The FDA said Friday it had detained about 11 percent of orange juice and orange juice concentrate imports since it started testing for the fungicide earlier this month.

Tim Flach, The (Charleston) Post and Courier and The Associated Press contributed.