A new concept is to ensure safety in the supply chain and life cycle of nanomaterials
07-02-2013
There is currently a need for better identification and assessment of potential hazards arising from nanomaterials for humans and their environment in the future. With this aim, the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) ...
05-09-2012
Analytical Technology Inc. announced that it has been awarded the ISO 14001 environment management standard, recognising the company’s commitment to minimising its impact on the environment. The ISO 14001 standard assists companies who want to minimise how their processes and operations ...
25-07-2012
The Quality Management Systems in place at the Westborough MA headquarters of Malvern Instruments Inc., Malvern’s US subsidiary, have been awarded ISO9001:2008 certification. This certification recognizes the US company’s supply, support and installation of materials characterization systems ...
13th BfR Consumer Protection Forum on challenges in food and feed analysis in the face of the global flow of goods
04-07-2012
Trust is good, but reliable and regular controls are even better. Adopting this motto, Europe has succeeded in setting high standards in the area of food and feed safety. Good and notably legally secure monitoring of standards required by law is only possible, however, if reliable and, more ...
31-05-2012
vermicon AG has now been certified in accordance with the GMP standard by the government of Upper Bavaria. It is now also an accredited pharmaceutical testing laboratory pursuant to § 67 para. 1 AMG (German Pharmaceuticals Act). “We want to share our years of experience across the various ...
22-05-2012
AB SCIEX announced that it has achieved ISO 13485 certification for its quality management system. ISO 13485 is an international standard that requires a manufacturer to demonstrate a comprehensive and compliant quality management system suitable for the design and manufacturing of medical ...
18-05-2012
ECHA invites the parties concerned to comment on five new proposals for harmonised classification and labelling (CLH): Isoxaflutole, Tembotrione, Metosulam, Potassium sorbate and Tetrakis(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-m-phenylene biphosphate. The public consultation will be open for 45 days and will ...
11-05-2012
Beckman Coulter, Inc. has obtained a CLIA Certificate of Registration, along with Massachusetts State Licensure, allowing Beckman Coulter Genomics to begin accepting clinical samples for genetic sequencing – the most technically complex CLIA category – and to provide those results to ...
02-03-2012
The first Community Rolling Action plan (CoRAP) addresses 90 substances that are suspected of posing risk to human health or the environment. The CoRAP list has been prepared in close cooperation with the Member States, taking into account the agreed risk based criteria for the selection of ...
25-01-2012
MDxHealth SA announced that its state-of-the-art, 13,448 sq.ft clinical laboratory facility in Irvine, California has received Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA) certification of registration from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In addition, MDxHealth’s ...
