Log in | Register | Subscriptions

Editor's Letter

The New China — Us?

The New China — Us?

To be blunt, many rural areas in the U.S. offer the ultimate incentive for businesses these days — a low cost of living and a large available labor pool.

Oily Oysters & Crude Shrimp

Oily Oysters & Crude Shrimp

Fierce competition seems to be a tempting reason to ignore certain safety standards and procedures, but when you-know-what hits the fan, consumers become the victims.

25 Million Acres of Corn with Nowhere to Go

25 Million Acres of Corn with Nowhere to Go

The pace of biotechnology innovation associated with bioenergy is set to usher in a period of food abundance so intense that there will be far more food available than the world needs.

Put your Studies Where your Mouth is

Put your Studies Where your Mouth is

In order to mitigate the potentially heavy regulatory changes coming down the pike, food manufacturers and chemical producers need to be the ones to uncover and disclose the effects of their products on public health.

FDA: Put Up or Shut Up

FDA: Put Up or Shut Up

If the FDA wants to provide food oversight, it needs to do its own testing on chemicals before they are put into food and packaging — whether the manufacturers okay it or not.

Arguing as an Art Form

Arguing as an Art Form

If OSHA says you are in violation of safety codes, you should pay for it. You shouldn’t be able to hire an attorney to argue that you should be responsible for only some of the violations.

Livestock Antibiotics a Threat to Human Health?

Livestock Antibiotics a Threat to Human Health?

The FDA told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee they believed overuse of antibiotics in food-producing animals is leading to antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could threaten human health.

Collaboration is Job No. 1 in Manufacturing

Collaboration is Job No. 1 in Manufacturing

These days, manufacturers have their heads in the cloud because cloud computing promises to drastically improve the ability of companies to drive manufacturing efficiencies.

Ag Under Attack — Is Food Processing Next?

Ag Under Attack — Is Food Processing Next?

It seems likely that those opposing technology’s role in agricultural production will continue to advance their efforts to restrict its use in other areas of the food chain.

Old School vs. New School

Old School vs. New School

Veteran workers and managers can represent a challenge — when workers get comfortable with the way things are run, they meet any change with vehement opposition.

Small Footprint Spectrometer

Small Footprint Spectrometer

12 hours ago | Products

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s Nicolet iS5 FT-IR spectrometer features an open-architecture sample compartment.

Hydrogen Peroxide-Washable Aseptic Robots

Hydrogen Peroxide-Washable Aseptic Robots

12 hours ago | Products

The DENSO VP-G2 six-axis articulated aseptic robots offer Class 100 cleanroom performance with an ultracompact design.

Hoses for Compressed Natural Gas Transfer

Hoses for Compressed Natural Gas Transfer

12 hours ago | Products

The Parflex CNG hose from Parker Hannifin is an electrically conductive hose used to dispense or transfer compressed natural gas.

Clean-In-Place Pressure Transducer

Clean-In-Place Pressure Transducer

13 hours ago | Products

The Series FT31XX clean-in-place (CIP) pressure transmitters from Stellar Technology, Inc. use a one-piece, non-welded diaphragm for reliable performance and long life.

Loading...

Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act (and CFATS) by Luke Simpson

Dec 17 2009

Chemical and water facilities are high on the current administration's list of security priorities, with the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009 under review by lawmakers. The bill would broaden federal juristiction over facility secutiry, and would also make inherently safer

Calculating radiation exposures during use of (14)C-labeled nutrients, food components, and biopharmaceuticals to quantify metabolic behavior in humans.

Sep 4

(14)C has long been used as a tracer for quantifying the in vivo human metabolism of food components, biopharmaceuticals, and nutrients. Minute amounts (< or =1 x 10 (-18) mol) of (14)C can be measured with high-throughput (14)C-accelerator mass spectrometry (HT (14)C-AMS) in...

Elevated CO2 increases plant uptake of organic and inorganic N in the desert shrub Larrea tridentata.

Aug 29

Resource limitations, such as the availability of soil nitrogen (N), are expected to constrain continued increases in plant productivity under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO(2)). One potential but under-studied N source for supporting increased plant growth under...

Autocatalysis and organocatalysis with synthetic structures.

Aug 7

The discovery of ribozymes led to the proposal of an RNA world, where a single type of molecule was supposedly capable of self-replication and chemical catalysis. We show here that both autocatalysis and organocatalysis can be engineered into a synthetic structure. The compound...

A chemical genetic screen for modulators of exocytic transport identifies inhibitors of a transport mechanism linked to GTR2 function.

Aug 5

Membrane and protein traffic to the cell surface is mediated by partially redundant pathways that are difficult to perturb in ways that yield a strong phenotype. Such robustness is expected in a fine-tuned process, regulated by environmental cues, that is required for...

Just What Is Innovation?

Just What Is Innovation?

19 hours ago

If the innovation process goes offshore, America will lose much of its capacity to generate wealth and that decline in long-term economic growth is assured.

Active Listening Really Pays Off

Active Listening Really Pays Off

Sep 1

Companies should take note when consumers speak, rather than merely making eye contact. Otherwise, consumers may look for someone who listens.

Renewable Chemicals: How Big, How Soon?

Renewable Chemicals: How Big, How Soon?

Aug 31

Growth in the renewable chemicals is being driven by factors such as a strong pipeline of novel products, government policies, energy prices, consumer awareness and concerns for global warming.

Iraq's Ambitious Oil Plan

Iraq's Ambitious Oil Plan

Sep 1 | Video

As the American combat mission draws to a close, Iraq is trying to dramtically increase oil production to 12 million barrels a day.

Underwater Robots Saved the Day

Underwater Robots Saved the Day

Aug 11 | Video

The remotely operated vehicles used by BP in the Gulf were an indispensable underwater workforce.

Solid-Liquid Injection System

Solid-Liquid Injection System

Aug 12 | Video

How an inline high-shear mixer uses a solid-liquid injection system to achieve better powder dispersion than conventional eductive systems.

Hot Work is Deadly

Hot Work is Deadly

Aug 5 | Video

Explosions that occur when workers are welding, cutting or grinding are a weekly occurrence, prompting the CSB to issue guidelines for effective hazard evaluation and gas monitoring.