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EnviroLogix Inc. has introduced the first five-minute, on-site immunoassay to detect melamine contamination in raw materials used in animal feed and pet food products. QuickTox Kit for Melamine was developed with speed, simplicity and sensitivity in mind. As sensitive as ELISA, it is designed to detect melamine contamination at 2.

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Siemens will be presenting its latest product advancements at the British Nuclear Medicine Society’s Annual Meeting from the 27 – 29 April 2009 at the Manchester Central Convention Complex. This includes information on its innovation, the Biograph™ mCT for molecular Computed Tomography as well as the Symbia® T16 TruePoint SPECT.CT and the world’s first intelligent SPECT technology, IQ.

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A couple weeks ago we blogged this item from Medical News Today , about a saliva test for rabies. As we always do on medical stories, we check into what the veterinary community is saying, and all seemed OK there. And then we try to put the news into context, in this case what such a test would mean if brought to market. That’s pretty much how the discussion went: The cost of the proposed test, how many lives (human and animal) is might save and so on. And then we moved on to the next thing.

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Researchers surveying pet owners living in Michigan, USA, found that one in three of the smokers said knowing smoking was bad for their pet’s health would make them quit and about one in ten said this would make them ask other smokers they lived with to quit.

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So far more than 500 cases of foodborne illness caused by Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported. Many of these cases have required hospitalization. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have confirmed that the sources of this outbreak are peanut products from the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA).

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