Sterilization
Sterilization is a term that refers to the complete killing or elimination of living organisms in the sample being treated. Sterilization is absolute. After the treatment the sample is e...
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Nuclear and Radioactivity Physics
Radiation Sterilization
Medical products, such as surgical dressings, sutures, catheters and syringes must be sterilized before they can be used in medical procedur...
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A northern Indian state said Thursday it planned to use unemployed youths to sterilize monkeys to try to combat aggressive primates who have been raiding farms. The idea drew immediate condemnation...
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A bill that would require the sterilization of most dogs and cats in California was sidelined Wednesday until next year after senators failed to endorse it.The bill's author, Democratic Assemblyman...
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U.S. marshals and FDA investigators on Tuesday began seizing heart valves and other implantable medical devices made from cow and pig tissue by a New Jersey company because of concerns about their ...
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GAITHERSBURG, Md./CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S.
advisory panel said Thursday that an experimental device
made by Hologic Inc to permanently sterilize women
could be approved if several post-marketing...
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A bill that would require most dogs and cats in California to be spayed or neutered has brought howls of protest from breeders and threats from the American Kennel Club to pull the nation's second-...
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The pesticide was designed to kill worms infesting the roots of banana trees on Latin American plantations. But at least 5,000 agricultural workers from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras a...
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Investigators say that the makers of a Chinese antibiotic blamed for six deaths and dozens of illnesses failed to properly sterilize the drug, which allowed dangerous amounts of bacteria to gr...
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A lawyer for a dozen Nicaraguan banana workers argued Wednesday that Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Dow Chemical Co. robbed his clients of the ability to have children by overexposing them to a harmful p...
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Prague (dpa) - A Czech court Friday for the first time awarded
financial compensation to a Roma woman who was sterilized without her
consent in a Czech hospital, the plainti...
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U.S. marshals and FDA investigators on Tuesday began seizing heart valves and other implantable medical devices made from cow and pig tissue by a New Jersey company because of concerns about their ...
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