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Thermo Fisher Completes Listing of Ion PGM system with FDA
Thermo Fisher Scientific has completed the listing of the Ion PGM Dx next-generation sequencing system with the US Food and Drug Administration as a Class II medical device.

Ion Proton is in the Top 10 Innovations 2012
The Scientist’s 5th installment of its annual competition attracted submissions from across the life science spectrum.

Malaysia will inspect orange juice imports for carbendazim
Malaysia has sounded an alarm for orange juice imports into the country in the wake of the discovery of traces of a toxic contaminant in certain brands of juice imported from Brazil into the US.

Gene Probe Yields E. coli Clue
The culprit behind Europe's deadly Escherichia coli outbreak appears to be an evolved and extremely toxic version of a bug first identified in Münster, Germany, in 2001, according to genetic analyses done by two separate teams of scientists.

Melamine Contamination Testing
Melamine Contamination Testing Prof Mustafa Ali, from the University of Malaysia Medical Centre (UMMC), was interviewed recently by KL's leading newspaper to create public awareness about public safety concerns from food contamination.

CDC Validated System for High Throughput Detection of Influenza A (H1N1) strains from Applied Biosystems - May 2009
Materials recently listed by the US FDA under the Emergency Use Authority (EUA) program for the detection of Influenza A(H1N1) are now available from Applied Biosystems.