The use of chemical decontaminants on animal caging, racks, rooms, common areas, equipment, and supplies can reliably prevent the transmission of infectious organisms. With proper selection of ...

Environmental policy guided by science saves lives, money, and ecosystems. So reports a team of 11 senior researchers in Environmental Science and Policy. Using air pollution in the United States as a ...

Humans have had a significant effect on the natural world. Our activities have had wide-reaching and long-lasting consequences for the planet. Pollutants can be found in all environments, and come ...

NEMIS Technologies, a Swiss innovator in rapid on-site pathogen detection, is poised to reshape global food safety standards with Mario Hupfeld, chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder, driving ...

In spite of innovations in patient care technology, healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) such as wound sepsis are continuing to rise, and hospitals are paying the price. One of the most recent ...

“With the multitude of chemicals in our environment ever increasing, selecting emerging chemicals to focus monitoring, research and regulatory efforts on requires prioritization of those expected to ...

On January 6, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued long-awaited draft guidance regarding Establishing Sanitation Programs for Low-Moisture Ready-to-Eat Human Foods and Taking Corrective ...

We monitor the stock market, the weather, our blood pressure. Yet environmental monitoring is often criticized as being unscientific, expensive, and wasteful. Scientists argue that environmental ...

In the pharmaceutical industry, cleanrooms are categorized based on the level of airborne particle concentration necessary to meet the cleanliness standards required for the specific manufacturing ...

Routine Environmental Monitoring in GMP cleanrooms is a manual process and is usually complex, involving thousands of sample data points per month, manual data transcription and all too frequently ...