Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) has traditionally relied on a fixed air changes per hour (ACH) approach to ensure safety in laboratory and research settings. Unfortunately, this method ...

The chemistry lab incident at the University of Delaware on Feb. 8 that prompted the evacuation of several buildings around The Green began with a mistake. But thanks to a student’s knowledge of ...

The Food Safety and Control Laboratory (FSCL) is located at the FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories, Seibersdorf. The laboratory assists Member States to improve laboratory and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put laboratories on edge, even if they’re not testing for the novel coronavirus. And rightfully so: COVID-19 is highly infectious; symptoms are mild — or nonexistent — for ...

Sigma metrics constitute a quantitative approach that integrates bias, imprecision and total allowable error to evaluate the performance of clinical laboratory assays ...

Chemical safety education and robust laboratory safety practices are critical to advancing academic research while safeguarding the health of students, researchers and staff. This field integrates ...

After an extensive review by the CDC’s internal Laboratory Safety Improvement Working Group, CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, has lifted the moratorium on a specific type of material transfer for ...

Dublin, Aug. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Quality Control Laboratory Compliance - cGMPs and GLPs Course (ONLINE EVENT: October 21-22, 2025)" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Christmas Eve brought the unwelcome news that a lab worker at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have been exposed to the Ebola virus. It was the latest in a series of similar lapses.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been slammed by an external advisory committee over "inconsistent and insufficient" safety commitments. The report points out that the ...

The United States Food and Drug Administration has announced the suspension of its food-testing quality-control program, citing sweeping staff reductions at the Department of Health and Human Services ...

ALTON The Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) has awarded accreditation to OSF Saint ...