Water is such a thing without which life cannot be imagined. It is needed for drinking, bathing, and washing clothes. Many a times we do not know about the impurities present in the water that is being consumed. Such a thing can become a ...
Tags: Purify Water, Chlorinators
Garments worn next to skin rapidly develop bacteria due to sweat and it creates malodor on clothing when the wearer stays for a longer time under harsh conditions. Fibre2fashion had earlier reported that Indian Institute of Technology - ...
Tags: Malodor, Keep Wearer Fresh
The effects of attachment surface energy on biofilms have been evaluated for wastewater treatment, with biofilms grown on four plastic types at a full-scale wastewater plant. It was found that higher surface energy surfaces may improve ...
Tags: Machine, Wastewater Treatment
Starbucks has entered into a milk supply contract with Arla, a Denmark-based dairy giant, to supply Cravendale milk brand to the company-owned coffee outlets across the UK. The switch from Dairy Crest is due to the quality of milk at ...
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Anticorrosion products manufacturer Cortec laboratories has introduced CorrLube Food Grade Penetrant, a non-toxic, lubricating oil, which can be used on equipment where incidental contact with food may occur. According to the company, ...
Tags: Cortec, Food Grade Lubricant
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has issued a health alert, warning consumers and retailers who have purchased raw milk and raw milk cheese from Stump Acres Dairy in New Salem, York County, to discard it immediately due to the ...
Tags: Raw Milk, Stump Acres Dairy
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 ...
Biotech specialist Partec has released analytical instruments which use a novel method to determine bacterial counts in drinking water. Partec says that the method is rapid and reliable and has been recommended by the Swiss Federal Office ...
Tags: Drinking Water Quality, Processing Machinery, analytical instruments
An open high-rate bioreactor is used to exclusively bio-reduce selenate to selenite, with the selenite subsequently reduced by chemical means under optimal conditions to produce a biomass-free selenium product. The removal of the toxic ...
Tags: Microbiological Selenate, Selenium, Processing Machinery
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
The UK’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) has published the results of the fourth HCAI Point Prevalence Survey. The report provides a snapshot of the levels of healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) in Autumn 2011. ...
Tags: Construction, Health Protection Agency, HPA
BioFire Diagnostics has submitted 510(k) pre-market notification application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval for its FilmArray blood culture identification (BCID) test. The application included positive ...
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Like other countries, dosing technology is being rapidly exploited in India. It is mainly used for handling various types of solvents and chemical substances in industries. Also, it is used in water plants across the country. In India, ...
Posted by Jack Mans, Plant Operations Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/16/2013 3:38:26 PM Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to kill deadly pathogenic bacteria, including listeria, in food ...
Tags: Packaging, Packaging Industry
Noble Biomaterials, Inc., the global leader in bacterial management solutions and manufacturer of X-STATIC? silver fiber technology, announced the acquisition of Carolina Silver LLC, a full-service manufacturer of silver-based fabric, yarn ...
Tags: Textile, silver fiber technology