Good news regarding farm accidents: In 2015, the U.S. saw fewer grain bin entrapments and incidents than it has seen in a decade. In 2014, a whopping 71 confined-space incidents were confirmed, but in 2015 only 47 were reported. ...
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Over the past 2 decades, package integrity testing has become more reliable. When it comes to package analysis, high “reliability” is considered the key factor to statistical quality control thus cannot be overlooked. The ...
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Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking comments on its proposed approach to revising infant formula requirements in the Food Standards Code. FSANZ Chief Executive Officer Mr Steve McCutcheon said although breastfeeding is ...
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Seal integrity is extremely important for preventing contamination or spoilage of a canned food product. Here is why proper canned food sealing is important and most effective method for evaluating seal integrity for canned food. Why Seal ...
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Mars chocolates manufactured in Australia has not been impacted by a global recall impacting 55 countries. Chocolates manufactured in Mars’ Netherland production facility have today been recalled after a small piece of red plastic ...
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Highlights from the auction include a Millennium Falcon model, fetching in £160 and an Imperial Shuttle, which went for £200. A recent toy auction held at Hansons Auctioneers in Etwall, has proven to be a hit with Star Wars ...
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The global gallium nitride (GaN) power device market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.5% from 2016 to $2.6bn in 2022, according to the report 'GaN Power Devices Market - Global Forecast to 2022' from ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has signed Japan's largest electronic components distributor UKC Holding Corp as its ...
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has demonstrated a single high-power LED delivering luminous flux of nearly 1600 lumens at a luminous efficacy of 134 lumens per watt (lm/W, or LPW) with similar color ...
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA says that in early February it surpassed 6GWDC of capacity installed by its Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) group. The firm is ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has again raised its world record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) research cell conversion efficiency, from 21.5% (reported in February 2015) to 22.1%, as certified at the Technology and ...
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Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that on 20 February II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA submitted a further revised set of proposed amendments to its original 15 January ...
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has expanded its LED bulb family with the introduction of the TW Series PAR30 Cree LED Bulb, designed to deliver bright, high-quality and focused light exactly where ...
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) developer Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has added to its growing product line with the CMD233, a 2-20GHz gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMIC distributed low-noise amplifier (LNA) that offers wide ...
The worldwide wearable device market took a big step forward in the fourth quarter of 2015, fueled by the growing popularity of fitness trackers and the Apple Watch. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, vendors ...
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