As we enter the year 2014, I am sure many of you have established personal or business-related goals for the coming year. I know the whole New Year's Resolutions issue can be very exciting to some as we set such lofty goals as weight loss, ...
Tags: Beef Industry, Food
It won't all harm you, but some of it might. That's the caveat in the latest Consumer Reports analysis of tests on raw chicken breasts purchased at retailers nationwide. The analysis found that 97 percent of tested chicken breast samples ...
Tags: raw chicken breasts, intestinal bacteria, food safety, E.coli
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the final version of a voluntary plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals. Antibiotics are added to the feed or drinking water of cattle, hogs, poultry and other ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
Tags: imagining, post-antibiotics, future
More conventional farmers, both small and large, are beginning to ease off antibiotic use on their animals. Pharmaceutical antibiotics had become popular as CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) came into existence. Antibiotics began ...
Tags: oregano, chicken, healthy, disease-free
U.S. health officials announced new guidance limits for antibiotics used for children due to the high amount of inappropriate uses of the drug. The report, Principles of Judicious Antibiotic Prescribing for Bacterial Upper Respiratory ...
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After decades of warning the public to stay away from supposedly artery-clogging coconut oil, mainstream science has recently produced studies showing that not only does coconut oil appear to be heart friendly, it also has a host of other ...
Tags: coconut, oil, zap, bacteria, tooth decay
Waste-water treatment by-products, also known as sewage sludge, are frequently used as fertilizer. And that means whatever this stew of sewage leftovers contains, including substances hazardous to human and animal health, could potentially ...
Tags: antibiotic, resistant, bacteria, fertilizer, super bug
Poultry processors struggling to screen accurately for Sulphonamide antibiotics could improve their quality control by testing for each specific compound. Research undertaken by leading test manufacturer Randox Food Diagnostics has ...
Tags: Food Processors, Specific Tests
Pathogenica has received the CE mark for its HAI BioDetection kit that runs on the Ion PGM benchtop sequencer. HAI BioDetection CE-IVD kit is a qualitative in vitro test designed for the rapid identification of bacterial organisms and ...
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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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Spanish firm STAT-Diagnostica said it will invest $17m, arranged through Series B financing round, for completing the development of its Near Patient Testing diagnostic system. Using the proceeds, the company also plans to clinically ...
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 ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Mobidiag, Genewave and Amplidiag have signed a definitive agreement to combine the three companies to set up a new company, which will offer integrated, high-multiplex diagnostic tests for infectious diseases. Headquartered in Helsinki, ...
Tags: Mobidiag, Genewave, Infectious Diseases
The biotechnology and personalized medicine company, Epistem, has gained CE mark for its in vitro diagnostic medical device (CE-IVD), Genedrive Tuberculosis (TB) test. Epistem said the registration enables to place its TB test and ...
Tags: Epistem, CE mark, CE-IVD, diagnostic medical device, TB test