Keyword: contamination

Contamination Control

Meeting All the Demands of Disinfecting

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The demands on disinfectants are significantly elevated compared to a few decades ago. The entire process of development—from the labs to the end-user—creates a network...

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BASF’s Contaminated TDI Unlikely Health Risk

23.10.2017 - Environmental authorities in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate have criticized BASF’s information policy in the wake of a mid-October incident at the chemical giant’s new...

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GenX Discharges Spark US Drinking Water Fears

27.06.2017 - US chemical giant DuPont and its spin-off company Chemours are in the news again in connection with fears of drinking water contamination in the US. Attention is focused once more...

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FDA Warns GSK on Contamination at UK Plant

26.07.2016 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent a stern letter to Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) warning about ongoing cross-contamination problems at its facility in Worthing, UK. The...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Industrial Water Management

07.05.2015 - How well does industry manage water resources? The general tendency today is to take a holistic systems approach. More process water is being recirculated and industrial producers...

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Radioactive Water Leak at Fukushima Plant

21.08.2013 - Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of...

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Ranbaxy Halts Generic Lipitor Production After Recall

30.11.2012 - Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories will stop manufacturing its version of Pfizer's cholesterol fighter, Lipitor, while it gets to the bottom of the cause of a recent...

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BASF, Shell Told to Pay $525 Million by Brazil Court

03.07.2012 - German chemicals maker BASF and oil major Shell have been told by a Brazilian court to pay 1.06 billion Brazilian real ($525.23 million) into a compensation fund for former...