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Volume 87, Issue 48
COVER: An outbreak of Escherichia coli strain O157:H7 in California-grown spinach in 2006 sickened at least 199 people, three of whom died.
Volume 87, Issue 48
KILLER GREENS
Recalls and public concern drive the push for greater vigilance
COVER: An outbreak of Escherichia coli strain O157:H7 in California-grown spinach in 2006 sickened at least 199 people, three of whom died.
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November 30, 2009 Issue
Volume 87, Issue 48
November 30, 2009 Issue, Vol. 87 | Iss. 48
Recalls and public concern drive the push for greater vigilance
(p.11)
Features
Government & Policy
EPA addresses data gaps, prepares to register more products (pp. 25-26)
Science & Technology
Flexible, high-aspect-ratio nanowires turn researcher into entrepreneur (pp. 30-31)
Cover Story: Making Food Safer
Testing Life's Staples
Time, sensitivity, and broad screening for contaminants in a multitude of matrices are critical for food analysis
(pp. 12-14)There's Money In Safer Food
As concern grows over food recalls, instrument makers eye a growing market for test equipment
(pp. 15-17)News of the Week
Calcite Close-Up
Composites: 3-D images reveal mineral’s interactions with a biopolymer
(p.7)A Pathogen’s Biochemical Mesh
Systems Biology: Study reveals that mycoplasma pneumoniae does more with less
(p.8)Freeze Protector Is Protein-free
Biochemistry: First-in-class natural antifreeze from alaskan beetle has carbohydrate and lipid components
(p.9)Drug R&D Heats Up In Beijing
Globalization: PPD buys Bioduro, Merck Serono builds new lab in Chinese capital
(p.10)Reliance Bids For LyondellBasell
Megamerger: Sale would make Indian conglomerate one of top five chemical companies worldwide
(p.10)Departments
Business
GSK banks on small science teams that act entrepreneurially
(pp. 20-21)
Meeting looks at science, regulatory, and health care hurdles to personalized medicine
(p.22)
As concern grows over food recalls, instrument makers eye a growing market for test equipment
(pp. 15-17)Concentrates
(pp. 18-19)
(pp. 18-19)- CF Wins Terra Board Seats
- Vietnam Project Moves Along
- Clariant To Cut 570 Jobs
- Carbon Nanotubes Coat Ship Hull
- BASF To Shutter Paper Coatings Sites
- Danish Plant To Fuel Climate Talks
- Thousands File Claims Against Chemtura
- ISP Launches Drug Solubility Effort
- Novartis Licenses Incyte Therapies
- Pfizer Plans New China R&D Center
- DNDi Taps Pfizer Compound Library
- Biopharma Plant Slated For Abu Dhabi
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Government & Policy
EPA addresses data gaps, prepares to register more products
(pp. 25-26)
Clean energy manufacturers see lost opportunity in failure to pass legislation that puts price on carbon
(pp. 27-28)
Science & Technology
Time, sensitivity, and broad screening for contaminants in a multitude of matrices are critical for food analysis
(pp. 12-14)
Recalls and public concern drive the push for greater vigilance
(p.11)
Flexible, high-aspect-ratio nanowires turn researcher into entrepreneur
(pp. 30-31)
Nanoscale aluminum and ice blend sends rocket aloft
(p.32)
Nonenzymatic technique for enantioselective amine acylation dispenses with a complex catalyst
(p.33)