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Theme of 2025 World Food Safety Day Revealed: ‘Science in Action’
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), each year almost 1 in 10 people fall ill after eating contaminated food. That’s roughly 600 million people, of whom 420,000 will die. […]

Food Chain Safety Research: Making Strides With Priorclave
In recent months food safety has grabbed too many headlines. We’ve seen outbreaks of E. coli from produce, Listeria infections from deli meats, a Salmonella outbreak across 12 states traced […]

Improving Speed and Accuracy in Our Food Safety System
In July, an Amsterdam-bound Delta Airlines flight out of Detroit was diverted to New York City after it was discovered that “a portion” of hot meals they’d served were spoiled, […]

Priorclaves are Ideal Education Autoclaves Because We Put Safety First
Many students are terrified of their lab’s autoclaves—and not without cause: autoclave accidents are much more commonplace in North America than elsewhere. Sadly, there’s an argument to be made that […]

Autoclave Parts: Lower Costs, Increase Safety, Assure Smooth Operations
Priorclave autoclaves are long-lived workhorses. That’s not because they never need maintenance or repair, but because we’ve designed them to make maintenance and repair easy. Any competent technician can keep […]
Improve Autoclave Safety: Five Best Practices for 2020
People doing their everyday jobs sometimes forget the power of the tools they use. You become inured to their risks, and go on autopilot. Those are the moments where accidents […]

Research Lab Autoclave Safety: Sealed Bottles are Bombs
In August of 2001 a research lab autoclave was processing tightly capped 178 bottles using a 30-minute liquid load. The autoclave began making unusual sounds, so a trio of lab […]

Research Lab Autoclave Safety: Bad Doors and Autoclave Explosions
WARNING: These are disturbing pictures of research lab autoclave accidents. There is blood. What happened? A lab tech loaded an older-style autoclave, began the cycle, and walked away to […]

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 […]

The Raw Deal on Milk Safety
Despite the fact that we carry tiny computers around in our pockets and drive cars that know where they are going, Americans still do not have a consensus on the […]