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On August 19, 2015, the US Center for Disease Control CDC released “NARMS (National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System) Now Human Data." NARMS is an interactive tool which shows how antibiotic resistance for four bacteria has changed during the past 18...
Beer testing goes well beyond color, learn more about lab testing of this festive tradition
Plant shutdown is an ideal time for QC efforts For many manufacturing plants, the holidays produce the ideal time for plant shutdowns for extensive cleaning, maintenance, or servicing of machines and equipment. Following holiday manufacturing plant shutdowns,...
Cosmetics Stability Studies are accomplished by creating a batch of products and testing samples under different conditions to understand what happens to a product in certain situations. These studies ensure that each product meets the necessary standards....
Immunotherapy is used to stimulate the immune system as a treatment that is often used in the fight against cancer. It works by using the body's natural defenses, the immune system, to fight cancer. Some forms of immunotherapy give the immune system an overall...
Cell Therapy and Gene Therapy Research and Development Cell and gene therapy are similar fields of biomedical research aimed at treating genetic diseases and are often combined in treatment. Cell therapy was introduced in the 1940s during the first blood...
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, more commonly known as CLIA, are federal regulations (in the US) that apply to any clinical laboratory that performs testing on humans, with the exception of clinical trials and basic research. A clinical laboratory...
The American National Standards Institute, better known as ANSI, was founded in 1918 and is a standards-setting organization in the United States, aimed at helping the U.S. economy remain competitive in the global marketplace and ensuring consumers' health and...
The US Food and Drug Administration defines biologics as "a wide range of products such as vaccines, blood and blood components, allergenics, somatic cells, gene therapy, tissues, and recombinant therapeutic proteins...composed of sugars, proteins, or nucleic acids...
In a recent retail report, 179,600 consumer packaged goods worldwide were reformulated last year in an effort to keep up with consumers' changing tastes. Many of the reformulations were done to accommodate the consumers' wants/needs for a healthier lifestyle and...
The field of toxicology is a branch of science that "helps us understand the harmful effects that chemicals, substances, or situations, can have on people, animals, and the environment." The field of toxicology has evolved from focusing on chemicals and poisons to...
Anthrax Bacteria is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria known as Bacillus anthracis. It causes a serious infectious disease in humans that come in contact with infected animals or contaminated animal products. To prevent the spread, Infectious Disease Laboratories...
Fusarium oxysporum Testing: An Overview Fusarium oxysporum represents a vast group of fungal strains, some of which are pathogenic to plants, causing wilts, rots, and various other diseases across a wide range of host species. This fungus is soil-borne and has a...
Oh, where will your products go? Do you know? Will it need exporting to a country facing freezing winter temperatures and be jostled around by harsh shipping conditions by oceans or held on customs storage docks in blistering 100 degree temperatures? Or will it be...
Summer is on its way and with the sun and the heat comes playing in the water to cool down! How can you be sure your device and technology can withstand the water? By getting the appropriate waterproof testing done on your product! For electronics and other...
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