Pathogens Articles
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How to Prevent Human Error in Lab & Manufacturing settings
Human error is referred to as an unintended mistake or an action that results in unwanted and serious accidents in a working system. Human error occurs more often. It is reported that human error accounts for about 70 percent of the laboratories error. The consequences of these errors range from mild to hazardous. Along with laboratories, manufacturing settings are also influenced by human error ...
By Digital GxP
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People are more aware of hygiene
This is another one of our series of posts regarding disinfection. It is intended for everyone, whether you are a homeowner, employee, business owner, over-seeing a public institution, etc. All of us have to ensure the cleanliness and safety of our home, business, or vehicle. When you walk into a home or business to use the public washroom, what are the first things you notice? What is the ...
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Navigating Uncharted Waters: Five Questions Parents Should Ask Schools about Water Safety during the Pandemic
Schools, universities, and all manner of other buildings across the country have been shut down for months. This long period of inactivity means that a whole host of water-borne pathogens will have had a chance to thrive in building water systems. Some of these pathogens can be dangerous and even deadly if present in elevated levels. Moreover, many of the standard water testing protocols do ...
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Probiotics for Grease Traps and Waste Water
Probiotics are in demand as a dietary supplement for humans relying on ‘beneficial’ bacteria to improve gut health. Similarly, probiotics for sewage systems can enhance the efficiency of grease traps, septic tanks, and drains. They can help to avoid problems like, clogging and odor by removing the contaminants. Bioremediation helps remedy the sewage problems in an environmentally ...
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Are you Flushing Money Down your Cooling Tower?
When it’s up and running properly, your cooling tower is the quiet workhorse and unsung hero of your water system. But neglecting regular inspections, cleaning, and maintenance can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars down the drain. Here’s how to keep it running at optimum levels of efficiency and performance – both for cost savings and for the environment. Limited Margin ...
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How Has GWT Helped Industrial and Municipal Organization to Implement UV Light Disinfection To Treat Their Water Streams?
Whether its for municipalities, industries, or commercial facilities, water and wastewater treatment regulations are consistently changing, as new pollutants and contaminants are discovered and researched. For example, pathogenic microorganisms have been studied for their effects on human health, their points of origin and reach, and the ways they can be dealt with for well over a century. On top ...
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Used in large-scale ventilation systems worldwide, bipolar ionization could be a secret weapon in the war against COVID-19
Companies are scrambling to test bipolar ion systems against the coronavirus. Bipolar ionization technology releases charged atoms that attach to and deactivate harmful substances like bacteria, mold, allergens, and viruses. It first arrived in the US in the 1970s as a tool to control pathogens in food manufacturing. Bipolar ionization has already proven effective against SARS, ...
By EKOion AB
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How To Choose A Suitable Feed Pellet Machine
Feed pellet machine widely used in large, medium and small aquaculture, food feed processing plants, livestock farms, poultry farms, individual farmers, small medium-sized farms, large, medium and small feed processing plants. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery mainly produces pellet machines such as feed pellet machine, straw briquetting machine, wood pellet machine, straw pellet machine. As well as ...
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How has GWT Helped Industrial and Municipal Organizations to Implement UV Light Disinfection to Treat Their Water Streams?
Whether its for municipalities, industries, or commercial facilities, water and wastewater treatment regulations are almost constantly changing, growing stricter as new pollutants and contaminants are discovered and researched. For example, pathogenic microorganisms have been studied for their effects on human health, their points of origin and reach, and the ways they can be dealt with for well ...
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Comparison of Low and Medium Pressure UV
DESTRUCTION OF PATHOGENS (Bacteria, Viruses, Protozoan Cysts): Both Conventional (low pressure) and Medium pressure UV will assist chlorine in disinfection including the destruction of all bacteria, viruses and protozoan cysts on a single pass. DESTRUCTION OF CHLORAMINES: Monochloramine (NH2Cl), Dichloramine (NHCl2), and Nitrogen Trichloride (NCl3) are the products of nitrogen introduction ...
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Flavoring And Seasoning
SOY SAUCE Soy sauce being eight kinds of amino acid and trace elements is an essential component of human nutrition and health. Due to the application of traditional technique, the long existing problem of secondary sediment of soy sauce which has caused poor appearance, especially finished goods soy sauce on the shelves needs to be solved. Ceramic membrane separation technology had been ...
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Water treatment for swimming pools – Spas & hydro pools - Case Study
UV manufacturers now offer a specialist range of UV systems providing tailored water treatment for swimming pools to meet the requirements of spas and hydro pools. Increased Adoption of UV Water Treatment For Swimming Pools With the rise of health centres and leisure clubs throughout the UK, a key feature in many modern facilities is the inclusion of spas and hydro pools. As a ...
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Electrolysis Brine Chemical Concept
Sodium hypochlorite mainly works by generating hypochlorous acid though hydrolysis, and the hypochlorous acid will decompose nascent oxygen further, whose strong oxidation will denature the protein of the virus and other substance, it leads to kill pathogenic microorganism. What’s more, hypochlorous acid can not only act on cell wall, virus’s outer shell, but also on the body of the ...
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Occupational (Workplace) Safety and Health Services Services 2018/2019
Safety and Health Services is our specialty with a focus on the workplace since our founding in 1978. We can perform audits, safety inspections, industrial hygiene surveys, OSHA compliance, noise surveys, indoor air quality, ventilation, review accident and illness records to minimize workplace illnesses and injuries ensure OSHA compliance and act as expert witness in litigation situations. Our ...
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New Research Demonstrates Safety of SOIL’s Waste Treatment Process
SOIL is committed to fully treating 100% of the wastes from each and every household EkoLakay toilet – and we take that responsibility very seriously! Our treatment process has been developed alongside global experts and exceeds standards set by the World Health Organization for the safe treatment of human waste. Once the collected waste from the sanitation service has been treated and ...
By SOIL Haiti
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Evaluating membrane performance in recycled water treatment plants for assets replacement strategy
Membranes are an important barrier used in recycled water treatment plants for pathogen removal. Understanding performance over operational life is important to inform membrane replacement. In this study, full scale virus challenge testing was conducted on newly commissioned membranes to validate virus log removal values for accreditation. After six years of operation, the membrane integrity ...
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Influence of pathogenic bacterial activity on growth of Scenedesmus sp. and removal of nutrients from public market wastewater
The present study aims to investigate the influence of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis in public market wastewater on the removal of nutrients in terms of ammonium (NH4–) and orthophosphate (PO43) using Scenedesmus sp. The removal rates of NH4– and orthophosphate PO43– and batch kinetic coefficient of Scenedesmus sp. were investigated. The phycoremediation ...
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Verification of an alternative sludge treatment process for pathogen reduction at two wastewater treatment plants in Victoria, Australia
At South East Water wastewater treatment plants (WwTPs) in Victoria, Australia, biosolids are stockpiled for three years in compliance with the State guidelines to achieve the highest pathogen reduction grade (T1), suitable for unrestricted use in agriculture and landscaping. However, extended stockpiling is costly, may increase odour nuisance and greenhouse gas emissions, and reduces the ...
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Disinfection of roof harvested rainwater for potable purpose using pilot-scale solar photocatalytic fixed bed tubular reactor
The potable use of harvested rainwater is limited, mainly due to contamination with various pathogenic microorganisms. Disinfection of microorganisms by solar photocatalysis is emerging as a promising technique for drinking water treatment. The present study deals with the preparation of Ag-doped TiO2 by the sol gel method, and its immobilization over the inner surface of the Pyrex glass ...
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Legionellosis Prevention in Industrial Equipment
Legionellosis is the most significant waterborne disease in the U.S. and possibly in many other developed countries with plumbing and other water handling systems. It accounted for about two-thirds of identified waterborne disease outbreaks included in the last two Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Reports” (MMWR) on drinking water, and ...
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