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May 21, 2008 | Volume 2, Issue 11

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FDA looking to fill more than 1,300 positions within the next several months
Biologists, chemists, medical officers, mathematical statisticians and investigators are among the experts in demand as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration begins a multi-year hiring initiative.
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Cage Changing Station
The AllerGard NU-617 Sit-Down Cage Changing Station provides sterility and protection for research animals as well as protecting personnel from allergens shed during the sensitive handling of small animals. The adjustable height feature allows lab technicians to comfortably stand at the cabinet to perform cage changes or with an optional clear acrylic closure panel, close off one side of the changing station converting it to a sit-down procedure workstation. Nuaire

LAB SAFETY TIP

Require Good Housekeeping Practices in all Areas
Good housekeeping is one of the foundations of good safety practice. When people are trained to clean-up and put things away as soon as they are done using them, their work areas are safer, more spacious, and more productive. From the condition of some chemistry laboratories, you would think that this critical lesson had never existed let alone been heard.
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IN THE MAGAZINE

Radio Energy Concerns in the Laboratory
by Bob Scher
Animal care facilities, just like all industrial environments, are exposed to a wide spectrum of electro-magnetic radiation from many different sources. It is important to consider how these emissions could effect animal stress levels and alter their behavior as well as understand how these signals can interfere with each other.

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