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Since the unveiling of the first lab-made meat hamburger in 2013, the cellular agriculture sector, in which biotechnology is used to make food products as opposed to animals, is burgeoning. With startup companies emerging around the US, it is unclear how the US government will regulate the new type of food production. Typically, the USDA […]
It was a challenging year for many publicly held contract testing lab companies, which provide a variety of analytical testing as well as other services across a range of industries. With networks of labs worldwide and extensive testing capabilities, such companies are major customers for analytical instrumentation and lab products. Their acquisition activities, lab expansions […]
The growing use of technologies in agriculture is helping turn farms into factories. Known as “precision farming” or “precision agriculture,” this evolving method of agriculture aims to increase productivity in farms while keeping costs low. Genome editing is a key aspect of precision farming, as it is used to develop an understanding of the genomic […]
In the US, dietary supplements (DS) are not required to undergo the same stringent testing, standardization and regulation as pharmaceutical drugs, leaving opportunities for DS companies to make misleading claims, mislabel packages and use contaminated ingredients. Adulteration of DS has long been a concern of consumers and regulatory bodies due to the lack of required […]
Moisture analyzers measure the moisture content of solids and liquids, as well as gases. These analyzers can measure trace and abundant amounts of moisture in wet or dry samples. There are a number of different technologies that these systems employ to obtain accurate moisture measurements. Loss-On-Drying (LOD) is a well-known and commonly used moisture analysis […]
Lab productivity, workflow-based solutions and ease of use were major themes for instrument companies at Analytica 2016. Major instrument firms have positioned themselves to serve these needs by providing a broad range of analytical techniques; an integrated offering of hardware, software, consumables and services; and a focus on all aspects of application-based workflows. IBO spoke […]
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