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Gov’t to Disclose More Info on Harmful Effects of Smoking

Gov’t to Disclose More Info on Harmful Effects of Smoking

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 [...]

Gov’t Announces First Exclusive Lab for ASF Virus Experimentation

Gov’t Announces First Exclusive Lab for ASF Virus Experimentation

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 [...]

IHMA Completes the Globalization of its Two Laboratories with the Recent College of American Pathologists (CAP) Accreditation of IHMA Europe, Enhancing Support for Clinical Trials in Anti-Infective Drug Development and Global Surveillance Studies

IHMA Completes the Globalization of its Two Laboratories with the Recent College of American Pathologists (CAP) Accreditation of IHMA Europe, Enhancing Support for Clinical Trials in Anti-Infective Drug Development and Global Surveillance Studies

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 [...]

Mérieux NutriSciences Relocates Canadian Food Testing Laboratory

Mérieux NutriSciences Relocates Canadian Food Testing Laboratory

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 [...]