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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 ...
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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 ...
By Ecoli Sense
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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 ...
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Top 3 research articles to detect viruses, bacteria and fungi, using the Coriolis Air Samplers
During the past decade, the Coriolis air samplers have been increasingly used for air bio-contamination monitoring. With over 300 publications from research labs all around the world, we were able to select the best open-source research papers with studies using the Coriolis air samplers. With sampling strategies optimized for bacteria, fungi, and viruses, these papers contain some of the best ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
By ScienceDaily
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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Rapid diagnostics, a new opportunity for European companies
A patch for detecting cocaine consumption from skin perspiration, a chip to identify pathogens in foods, a device for monitoring colon cancer via a patient's blood, and a sensor to detect environmental contamination via the analysis of marine algae. All four applications have something in common: they all arose from the same European research project, entitled LabOnFoil. This initiative, which ...
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Protecting the health of Europeans by improving methods for the detection of pathogens in drinking water and water used in food preparation.
Want to find out how 9 million euros of research can improve your methods for pathogen detection in drinking water? Testing for bacteria, viruses or protozoa? Whether you work in the large water sector or use water in the food production industry, technologies developed by the EU funded Aquavalens project to detect pathogens in water are likely to be of use to you, ensuring your drinking water is ...
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US Nuclear adds chemical, bacterial, & viral detection to dronerad
US Nuclear Corp. (OTCBB: UCLE) is preparing to ship a fleet of DroneRAD systems to the Saudi Arabia Civil Defense. In addition to detecting radiation, such as radioactive gamma hot-spots or airborne particulates, US Nuclear is happy to announce these unique DroneRAD systems can also be outfitted with chemical detectors and bacterial/viral collection filters. A proprietary quick-release gimbal ...
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Neogen licenses food safety data analytics platform from Corvium
Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it has signed a development and licensing agreement with Corvium, Inc., that will allow Neogen’s customers exclusive access to an enhanced version of Corvium’s award-winning CONTROL-PRO™ food risk intelligence platform. To be marketed under the Neogen Analytics brand, the innovative platform will enable Neogen customers to ...
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