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Food Truck Food Safety: On the Road to Redemption
Can you trust the nosh you buy from food trucks? Once known as “roach coaches,” the twenty-first century marks a new era for food trucks. But have they shed their bad reputation […]
GM Food Safety Testing Safeguards Against Allergies
It\’s not science fiction: Genetically modified (GM) food has been on the market for twenty-two years. Nonetheless, debates about safety for human consumption are far from settled. The World Health […]
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 […]
The Culture of Safety Starts With Good Training
We applaud the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) and the White House for taking initiative to close gaps in biosafety and biosecurity at infectious disease laboratories. A memorandum released October […]
Priorclave Lab Solutions Featured in BioMatters Journal
Every day, modern healthcare facilities worldwide produce a staggering amount of medical waste. Most experts estimate that 10 to 25 pounds of medical waste are generated per occupied bed, per […]
Why it’s Crucial to Leak Test Autoclaves and Discover Leak Test Failures ASAP
Effective team sterilization is essential for reliable, valid research and lab safety. As such, all labs should periodically leak test autoclaves to ensure that their machine is effectively creating and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Why Biotech Incubators Matter
When Dr. Gary Niehaus came to Ohio in 1985, the entire region was in a slump. The so-called “Rust Belt” had lost its traditional manufacturing base, but failed to replace […]
Putting Steam-Jacketed Autoclaves to the Test at University of Alabama at Birmingham
At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, there are hundreds of autoclaves on campus. Until a few years ago, all but two were steam jacketed. Nick Ciancio, UofA-B’s sustainability coordinator […]