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Bacteria Detected in Hand Soap Causes Recall in Canada

According to CBC News, Avmor Ltd. of Laval, Quebec has issued a voluntary recall of one lot of their Antimicrobial Foaming Hand Soap after testing conducted by Health Canada detected the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The Drug Identification Number for the infected product is 02319144, and the lot number is F121392032. Approximately 1,020 one-liter containers are included in this recall. The ...

Oct. 25, 2012

By EMSL Analytical, Inc.

Ecoli-Sense Wins 2017 BREW Accelerator Competition

The Water Council’s BREW Accelerator program recently announced the fifth-round winners of its competition. Among the winning startups in this Milwaukee competition was Ecoli-Sense from Mississauga, Ontario. The company specializes in biosensor monitoring technology for water quality and agriculture. Ecoli-Sense’s real-time bacteria detection sensors use innovative nanotechnology and ...

Aug. 18, 2017

By Ecoli Sense

MicroLAN installs BACTcontrol to monitor groundwater recharge for French golf course

MicroLAN, has installed an online BACTcontrol system at the effluent of the waste water treatment plant Agon-Coutainville, France. The wwtp-effluent is used for groundwater recharge for a nearby golf course on the Normandy coast. The BACTcontrol system has been installed as part of a EU-funded demonstration project for an advanced monitoring of the quantity and quality of the groundwater at the ...

Aug. 21, 2017

By microLAN B.V. - Aqualabo Group

Live webinar: Microchip-based real-time PCR

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a well-known technique that has been adopted for detection of many bacteria, fungi, viruses, and viroids due to high specificity and sensitivity. However, most of the currently used PCR analysis techniques for multiple pathogen detection are very time-consuming, require tedious reaction set up in strictly controlled laboratory conditions and prone to user ...

Mar. 29, 2018

By Lumex Instruments Group

TB & Mycobacterium tuberculosis Exposed in New Educational Video

Today, the IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of their latest educational video. The video is about tuberculosis, also known as TB. It is caused by a bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB is spread through the air from one person to another. TB bacteria are put into the air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, ...

Aug. 11, 2011

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

Bacterial genes involved in making toxic methylmercury are identified

Research into mercury has identified two genes in bacteria that appear to be required for turning the metal into its most toxic form, methylmercury. The study adds to a growing body of research that helps us to understand the transformations that mercury undergoes in the environment and the microbes involved in these transformations. Mercury is harmful to animals and humans and its more toxic ...

May 2, 2013

By European Commission, Environment DG

Legionnaires’ Disease Plagues Luxor Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas

Health officials in Nevada have reported that Legionella bacteria, which causes Legionnaires’ disease, was found in water samples in the Luxor Hotel-Casino. One man recently died after staying there, and two other guests were sickened by the disease in the spring of last year. The hotel is owned by MGM Resorts International, which immediately began the remediation process after the ...

Feb. 8, 2012

By EMSL Analytical, Inc.

Molecular Lab - EBS - Wastewater Training and Consulting

EBS continues driving innovation in wastewater treatment. In doing so, we have implemented new technology to identify sources of fecal bacteria in wastewater treatment systems. Many of our clients have permit limits for fecal indicator bacteria in their effluents. When concentrations are above these limits in systems that do not have domestic influences, the question becomes “where is it coming ...

Aug. 1, 2016

By Environmental Business Specialists, LLC

Unique dietary strategy of a tropical marine sponge

Research conducted at the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) on a marine sponge in Kāneʻohe Bay, O?ahu revealed a unique feeding strategy, wherein the sponge animal acquires important components of its diet from symbiotic bacteria living within the sponge. Coral reefs are one of Hawaiʻi's most important natural ...

Aug. 14, 2019

By ScienceDaily

ELITechGroup Microbiology releases a new rapid test to detect resistance to polymyxins.

Among the most clinically significant multidrug-resistant bacteria are carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae. Because these bacteria usually remain susceptible to polymyxins, interest in this old class of antibiotics has been recently renewed. However, the increasing use of colistin explains why Enterobacterial strains resistant to colistin are increasingly reported worldwide. Currently ...

Oct. 17, 2016

By ELITechGroup

Government Warns Against Visiting Lake Superior due to E. coli Contamination

The Minnesota Department of Health has detected high levels of E.coli bacteria in the water at numerous beaches along the shore of Lake Superior. The contamination was detected during a weekly routine inspection, and the Department of Health has recommended no contact with the water at 42nd Avenue East Beach and Brighton Beach in East Duluth. High levels of bacteria were also detected at ...

Jul. 31, 2012

By EMSL Analytical, Inc.

Legionella Bacteria Identified with PCR and DNA Sequencing

Recently, Legionella has made the news as outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease have been reported from Maryland to the United Kingdom and Spain. These Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria can be found in natural, freshwater environments across much of the globe, but they are typically present in insufficient numbers to cause disease. Unfortunately, various manmade environments can provide ...

Aug. 7, 2012

By EMSL Analytical, Inc.

New Platform for Nano Engineered Structures

Sanford, FL – Argonide Corporation, a Florida based company, has announced its latest development in nano engineered technology (“NET”). Using NanoCeram® their patented electropositive nonwoven filter media as a platform, they are now able to load a wide range of nanopowders into the sheet. The first innovation of the new technology uses powdered activated carbon (PAC) as the attached ...

Mar. 20, 2007

By Argonide Corporation

Report: Tests of ballast water treatment systems are flawed

Government-sanctioned tests of equipment designed to cleanse ship ballast water of invasive species are seriously flawed because they don't determine whether the systems will remove microbes that cause gastrointestinal illnesses, scientists said Wednesday. Ballast water provides stability for cargo ships in rough seas. But it's believed to have introduced numerous invaders to U.S. coastal waters ...

Jan. 14, 2015

By Associated Press

UN camp Mali has drinking water directly from wastewater

High-tech water cycle in the desert In the middle of the desert at the military camp of the United Nations’ Peace Mission in Mali Han Wissink of the MasterMind Company has managed to build a compact water- treatment installation to turn wastewater directly into drinking water. It has not been not a simple task, but mainly thanks to sophisticated online monitoring, including the ...

Mar. 1, 2018

By microLAN B.V. - Aqualabo Group

MIT Lincoln Laboratory develops new sensor to detect anthrax and smallpox

Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have developed a powerful sensor that can detect airborne pathogens such as anthrax and smallpox in less than three minutes. The new device, called PANTHER (for PAthogen Notification for THreatening Environmental Releases), represents a 'significant advance' over any other sensor, said James Harper of Lincoln Lab's Biosensor and Molecular Technologies Group. ...

Mar. 5, 2008

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Detecting diseases in the palm of your hand

Portable laboratories the size of your palm, capable of analysing food for diseases such as salmonella, no longer belong in the realms of science fiction. A team of European researchers are on the fast track to producing just such a lab. OptoLabCard, a project funded by the EU to the tune of over EUR 3 million, offers to not only protect the health and well-being of millions of Europeans but also ...

Jul. 30, 2008

By European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Axiom Microbiome Array for Research

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recently launched the Applied Biosystems Axiom Microbiome Array for simultaneous detection of archaea, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses in human and non-human samples. Developed in collaboration with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the array is designed to increase the understanding of microorganisms, while ...

Feb. 5, 2018

By Thermo Fisher Scientific, LIMS & Laboratory Software

EPA provides environmental monitoring of Maine’s coastal beaches

With the summer beach season in high gear, EPA’s New England office is awarding a US$252,220 grant to help support the Maine Healthy Beaches Program to continue efforts to monitor water quality conditions at Maine beaches to ensure that people enjoying the beach are also enjoying healthy water conditions. This EPA funding was made available through the federal Beach Act of 2000, which requires ...

Aug. 14, 2008

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA announces safe drinking water research

Let's raise our water glasses and toast to America's health! Water is essential to life, and one of EPA's highest priorities is ensuring America has drinking water safe from pathogens and other waterborne contaminants. Today, EPA announced the award of $3.6 million in research grants to four universities, one non-profit, and one research institute to improve the detection of known and emerging ...

Sep. 5, 2008

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency