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Matching Food, Beverage, and Tobacco with Quality Autoclaves for Reliable Quality Control
Tobacco is taking a hit in both US and EU markets as governments move to increase regulations. First, the US Food and Drug Administration came out with a potential […]
Cost-Effective Safety Testing and Quality Control for Cosmetic Manufacturers
Although regulations and standards for cosmetic manufacturing in the US are often characterized as sparse, FDA statistics have confirmed for many years that this is one of the safest product […]
How Safe is Our Food and Beverage Supply?
During the summer of 2024, dozens of deadly listeria cases popped up across the United States. This raised fears and red flags for epidemiologists, and sparked a race to uncover […]
Do I Need a GLP or GMP Autoclave?
Customers often ask us: “Do I Need a GLP or GMP Autoclave?” Usually, the answer is “No, you don’t.” That’s because, in the grand scheme of things, only a narrow […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of US Food Safety
Germs are everywhere. Keeping the dangerous ones out of our stomachs is the explicit job of manufacturer food safety testing programs. With the abundance of technology available for testing and […]
Who Can Americans Trust with Food Safety?
Salmonella, E. coli, and listeria are invisible invaders, making supermarkets a scary place. Behind a facade of bright packaging and colorful produce lurks the possibility of bacterial infections that can […]
Opt in for Safety with a Research-grade Tabletop Autoclave
We like to assume that if we haven’t heard about a food safety problem, that’s because no problem exists. Unfortunately, in the absence of rigorous testing, we simply have no […]
Special Sauce, Pathogens, and Tabletop Sterilizers
Chipotle screwed up. Big time. And a quality control department with two techs and a decent tabletop sterilizer could have prevented it all. Between August and December 2015, almost 500 […]
Best Practices: Research-Grade Autoclaves for College, University, and Training Labs
1. Make safety a top priority. Ensure you choose an autoclave that’s listed by an OSHA-approved NRTL (nationally recognized testing laboratory), such as UL or ETL. A steam autoclave being […]
Greenhouses Using Autoclave Sterilizers for Research and Conservation
Intricate ecosystems formed over the course of 4.5 billion years of evolution, but human activity and land use are decimating resources in a fraction of that time. Biodiversity is the […]
Lowering the Carbon Footprint in Research Laboratories
As every research scientist knows, running a lab isn’t cheap. And laboratory research runs up costs beyond what you see on budget line-items. Labs send enormous volumes of single-use plastics […]