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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 […]
Learning to Trust Your Autoclave
Dugway has been under scrutiny recently for issues regarding the handling of deadly airborne pathogens. Bernie Youngblood, founder and president of Priorclave North America, is concerned these lapses aren’t getting […]
Education Is Our Best Defense
Nobody likes sloppy science. At best, results are untrustworthy; at worst, they can be deadly. It was revealed earlier this year that a US Army lab was improperly irradiating anthrax […]
Food Processors, Quality Assurance, Sterilizers, and Consumers
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream voluntarily recalled products and closed retail scoop shops in April 2015 after listeria was found in a random sample. The FDA promptly conducted a ten-day inspection, concluding […]
Ground-Breaking Research on Autoclaved Peanuts
More than 3 million people in the US report having an allergy to peanuts—a number that has gone up dramatically in the past twenty years. A recent study led by […]
Double-Door Pass-Through Autoclaves: A Sterilization Solution
Sadly, the Ebola epidemic has not waned in Africa, nor remained contained. It has made its way to US soil—albeit with a very limited number of incidents—and is driving a […]
Priorclave Earns ETL Listing With Third Edition Certification
Priorclave Ltd., one of the United Kingdom’s leading manufacturers of laboratory autoclaves, is pleased to announce that they have earned ETL Certification in the US and Canada. Going a step […]
California Mega Drought: Brief Blip or Decade-Long Diaster?
For the last six months hundreds of rural Californians have lived with dry taps, inflatable toilets, and not a drop of hot water. They eat fast food instead of cooking, […]
Microbrewery Autoclaves: Secure Flavor at the Push of a Button
You care about brewing, and getting solid, reproducible results. The only way to do that is to be sure that you know exactly what’s going into each batch. You don’t want stray […]
Ebola: Serious but No Cause for Panic
A second Ebola case was announced this week in Texas-the first ever confirmed transmission of the virus within the borders of the United States. This seems like dire news. And although […]
Priorclave North America – Our 50th Install!
We are proud to announce that we have completed our 50th North American autoclave installation, and pleased to have done so at historic Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia—an institution […]
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 […]