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INDUSTRY PRODUCTS New Small Volume Evaporator from KD Scientific The new Centrifan™ PE Evaporator/Concentrator provides a low cost, safe, small volume evaporator for synthetic and medicinal chemists, as well as pharmaceutical, biotech, and university researchers. The Centrifan™ PE dries solvents directly in the vial, increasing evaporation efficiency in your laboratory. Proprietary self-generated blowdown technology (SBT) eliminates the potential problems with common evaporation systems such as vacuum centrifuges, rotary evaporators, nitrogen blow-down, and freeze dryers. Synthetic and medicinal chemists will save time because the Centrifan™ PE dries samples without the monitoring required by a rotorvap. The system also works well for processing fractions collected from flash liquid chromatography. Pharmaceutical and university labs working with radioactive and other highly toxic compounds will appreciate the advantage of the green chemistry design. In the Centrifan™ PE samples are dried in 20 ml scintillation or other common vials and there is no need for a vacuum pump or a large supply of blow-down gas. This protects samples from loss and captures toxic vapors and materials in a closed system. KD Scientific +1 508.429.6809 Holliston, Ma www.kdscientific.com New Compact Chilling/Heating Stage for Assay Plates on Robotic Systems from Torrey Pines Scientific Torrey Pines Scientific announces its EchoTherm™ RIC20 Peltierdriven, compact Chilling/Heating Temperature Stages settable from -20.0ºC to 110.0ºC. These units are designed for remote controlled applications on robotic systems. Any number of units can be set to any single temperature via a single computer serial port. The unit(s) will continue to run the temperature instructed, even without a hardwire connection, until told otherwise. The RIC20 Series are compact and designed to take up as little space as possible on a robot platform. The units measure 6.5” (165 mm) long by 4.75” (120 mm) wide by 3.5” (89 mm) tall without a sample block. Offered as accessories is the broadest variety of precision-made aluminum sample blocks available anywhere for standard assay plates, deep-well assay plates, centrifuge tubes of all sizes, vials, and most any size test tube. Custom sample blocks can be made for any sample container by request. The RIC20 Series can be set to 0.1ºC and control temperature to ± 0.1ºC. Temperature settings are stable to ± 0.2ºC and accurate to ± 0.5ºC. Each unit comes complete with chiller/heater module, universal power supply, AC line cord for the country of use, and instructions including the Serial Port Command Set. The EchoTherm™ RIC20 Series units are UL, CSA, and CE compliant. Torrey Pines Scientific, Inc. +1 866.573.9104 Carlsbad, Ca www.torreypinesscientific.com Continued on the next page>>>>>>>>>>>> JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2013 FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS 53 http://www.kdscientific.com http://www.torreypinesscientific.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Food Protection Trends - January/February 2013

Food Protection Trends - January/February 2013
Contents
Food for Thought & Commentary
Secretary Election 2013
“Counter Top” Training Program
“...Listeria on Deli Slicers...”
Cooling of Foods in Retail Foodservice
Food Safety Knowledge, Beliefs and Behavior of Persons With Aids: A Multicenter Study
Beyond the Bio
Special Interest Paper
Legal Brief
PDG Highlight
Industry Products
Coming Events

Food Protection Trends - January/February 2013