Demand for specialty biocides in the U.S. is forecast to rise 4.0 percent per year to $3.9 billion in 2018. In volume terms, demand is expected to increase 1.0 percent annually to 1.5 billion pounds over the same period. “A strong ...
Tags: specialty biocides, Biocide demand
Following a recall by McCormick & Company, Inc., The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC announced it removed from sale McCormick Ground Oregano due to potential Salmonella contamination. The following product is included in this recall: ...
US-based Sun Tree is recalling walnuts including 46 cases of 24 count 12oz produce bags, California Grown Shelled Walnuts due to the potential contamination by Listeria monocytogenes, an organism that can cause infections. The affected ...
Tags: Packaged Walnuts, Health Concerns
FALMEC, producer of cookerhoods with innovative cutting-edge concepts, made an important new contribution to the solution of the problem of indoor air pollution with Bellaria, an innovative device resulting from the exclusive FALMEC E.ion? ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
US-based Sixdog Investments is recalling some cases of its certified organic eggs, due to possible contamination with Salmonella, an organism which can cause infections. The affected eggs are packed in dozen and half-dozen packages, and ...
Debate about infant formula marketing monitoring continues Paediatricians from Australasia’s largest specialist college, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) have urged the Federal Parliament to legislate to ...
Tags: Infant Formula, Government Moves
Honey, that delectable condiment for breads and fruits, could be one sweet solution to the serious, ever-growing problem of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, researchers said here today. Medical professionals sometimes use honey ...
Tags: bacterial resistance, Health, Medicine, Honey
A team of U.S. researchers says it discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight drug-resistant bacteria that threaten public health. Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery of the University of Notre Dame said the new class of antibiotics ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has concluded that Doribax (doripenem), an antibacterial drug that has been used to treat patients who develop pneumonia while on ventilators, carries an increased risk of death and lower clinical ...
Tags: kidney infections, Health&Medicine, Health care professionals
Antibiotics prescribed in doctors' offices are linked with many cases of serious bacterial infections that can cause severe diarrhea in children, according to a new study. Researchers found that 71 percent of cases of Clostridium ...
Tags: Antibiotics, bacterial infections, the health of our nation's children
A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other drug-resistant ...
Tags: Chemists, New Class, Antibiotics
The system that allows the sharing of genetic material between bacteria – and therefore the spread of antibiotic resistance – has been uncovered by a team of scientists at Birkbeck, University of London and UCL. The study, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Unravelling Bacterial Secretion System
A simple change in how the hospital laboratory reports test results may help improve antibiotic prescribing practices and patient safety, according to a pilot, proof-of-concept study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and now ...
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We really need to talk about bladder cancer Of the top 10 cancers in the UK, bladder cancer is only one where survival rates have been shown to be getting worse. New figures published this month in the Journal of Clinical Urology confirm ...
Tags: Bladder Cancer, Health, Medicine
The need to prevent and control healthcare acquired infections (HCAI) across Europe, which results in 4.5 to 5 million cases annually, is driving the hand hygiene market in Western Europe. Outbreaks of norovirus and bird flu over the past ...
Tags: Healthcare, Drive Hand Hygiene