SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has decided to raise general awareness of the health risks of smoking once again by setting up an exclusive research institute specializing in the impact of tobacco on public health. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) opened last Wednesday the ‘National Harmful Effects of Cigarette [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency launched on Thursday the process of outsourcing the design of the nation’s first shield-test facility that will be used in experiments related to the African swine fever (ASF) virus. As a 3rd grade biosafety lab, the shield-test facility is a negative pressure-type special [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Huawei Technologies Co. opened its first 5G lab in South Korea on Thursday to expand its presence in the South Korean market, but the ceremony was held in a low-key mode amid a tussle with the United States over its telecom equipment. The Chinese telecom equipment and handset giant [...]
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — On 14th October 2017 IHMA Europe Sàrl, located in Monthey, Valais, Switzerland, was awarded accreditation by the College of American Pathologists (CAP). With this important development both IHMA facilities, located in the US and Europe, are now CAP accredited. These accreditations further advance IHMA’s global commitment to the [...]
BURNABY, British Columbia, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Mérieux NutriSciences, a leading international network of accredited food testing laboratories, announced today that it has moved one of its four Canadian food testing labs to a new, 24,000 square foot facility, just miles from its former location in Burnaby, British Columbia. The actual move, which took [...]