Chipotle Mexican Grill has announced that it has not changed its standards for responsibly raised beef, reaffirming its commitment to antibiotic-free meat. The company's responsibly raised beef, chicken and pork continue to come from ...
UK-based Randox Food Diagnostics is set to unveil a generic Tetracyclines ELISA screening kit based on Biochip Array Technology for veterinary residue testing. The company will launch the ELISA kit by the end of this month to complement ...
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Organic micropollutants are omnipresent in water, and although they typically occur at very low concentrations, they can be transformed into complex mixtures of unknown composition. This study proposes a new approach for the tentative ...
Pharmaceutical packaging requires high attention to detail due to the critical nature of the materials required to protect the active product throughout its shelf life. Types of packaging material and design can also be influenced by the ...
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US-based full-service supermarket chain Roche Bros has introduced new chicken and pork options, expanding its meat department offerings. The chain is offering chicken with no added antibiotics and Niman Ranch all natural pork. According ...
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Clinical-stage pharmaceutical company Cempra has received a notification of patent allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for taksta loading dose formulation. With the possibility for extension, the patent entitled ...
With nightmarish superbugs threatening the lives of patients and healthcare workers, hospitals are taking considerable precautions to track who is and who isn't washing their hands. For example, Summerville Medical Center, a 94-bed ...
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EVOL Foods, a US-based producer of natural and organic frozen meals and snacks, has announced that a number of its burritos and entrees will now be available at Target stores nationwide. To celebrate EVOL's product distribution at Target, ...
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Evotec and Harvard University have entered into research collaboration to develop new class of antibacterials. The new anti-bacterial agents will be based on a highly validated target family involved in bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. ...
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Cempra, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, has signed an exclusive license and development agreement for solithromycin with Toyama Chemical, a subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings in Japan. As per the terms of the license and development ...
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Your lawn could become a "toe-away" zone if you’re not careful when operating rotary-blade lawn mowers. The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission estimates more than 37,000 Americans suffer a power mower-related injury each year. ...
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Cubist Pharmaceuticals has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fast track status for its late-stage antibiotic candidate ceftolozane/tazobactam in the previously granted Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) ...
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UK-based drug discovery and development company Redx Pharma is planning to open a new £10.5m research and development facility at AstraZeneca's Alderley Park site in Cheshire, England. The new venture, Redx Anti-Infectives, will ...
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More than half of the raw ground turkey and patty products we recently analyzed contained fecal bacteria, and 90 percent had at least one of the five bacteria that we looked for, including some notorious for causing foodborne illness, like ...
Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
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