EnSURE™ Touch Quality Monitoring System from Hygiena

The EnSURE Touch features superior performance, sensitivity, innovative design and functionality upgrades including:

• Responsive 5” shatter-proof touch screen that works while wearing gloves.
• Re-designed user interface that functions like a smart phone and configures to fit any facility or network of facilities.
• Wi-Fi capabilities and wireless sync technology for secure data transfer to new cloud-based software.
• Collection and storage of important testing data such as room number, line name, cleaner used, and more.
• Unique and extremely easy to use Re-test function. 
• Training remote teams with built-in screen sharing technology.
• Automatic updates and calibration check reminders.

The EnSURE Touch is designed with its users in mind. Incorporating key design features and customization options, it is easily setup for industries like food and beverage manufacturing, healthcare, food service, hospitality, and many more.

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Thanksgiving Quiz | Test Your Thanksgiving Knowledge

A table full of turkey, corn, stuffing and cranberries can only mean one thing: Thanksgiving! Aside from the tasty morsels, Thanksgiving is also a yearly celebration of gratitude that originated with the Pilgrims and Native Americans. Test your knowledge on the history of the holiday based on the day’s facts and trivia.

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Easygel™ Media by Micrology Laboratories

Plating couldn’t be faster  – just inoculate, swirl and pour

Easygel (previously available as Redigel from 3M) replaces agar in microbiological media. This ingenious culture media uses pectin (the agent that puts the gel in jelly and jams) and not seaweed derived agar as a gelling agent. It comes as a sterile 2-part test unit consisting of a bottle of liquid medium and a petri dish that is pretreated with a special formulation. 

Here’s how it works: When the bottle of liquid medium is poured into the pretreated petri dish, ions diffuse from the pretreatment layer into the liquid causing it to gel. Complete gelling takes around 40 minutes. The result is an instant, hassle-free petri dish: where you want it and when you want it. 

With Easygel, you spend less time preparing and more time performing. Easygel Standard Plate Count and Violet Red Bile are Official AOAC methods and are APHA approved for food, dairy and beverage testing.

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50 Facts About Life You Won’t Believe You Didn’t Already Know

With unlimited access to information at our fingertips at any given moment, it can be hard to keep up. Sometimes, the constant noise of social media and the 24-hour news cycle can even seem inescapable. The good news—which we could all use right about now—is that some things are worth knowing a lot more than others. From practical tips to tidbits that can help you out at a cocktail party or virtual happy hour, here are 50 facts everyone should know. 

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GasPak™ EZ Gas Generating Container System

Cultivation of Anaerobic Bacteria

The GasPak™ EZ Gas Generating Container Systems are multi-use systems that produce atmospheres suitable to support the primary isolation and cultivation of anaerobic, microaerophilic, or capnophilic bacteria by use of gas generating sachets inside multi-use incubation containers. The system offers bio-performance and reliability without the need for a catalyst or activation procedure. The GasPak EZ Gas Generating Sachet contains all the ingredients needed to create a specific atmosphere for specimen incubation. The sachet and specimens are placed in the clear, stackable, plastic GasPak EZ Incubation Container. The container is sealed and the sample is incubated. 

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