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    <title>Merck Supplements Now in Compact, Recyclable Packaging</title>
    <description>The new packaging is easily recyclable and takes up less storage space in the fridge.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:26:50 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>MAS-100 CG Ex Air Sampler for Contamination in Compressed Gases</title>
    <description>The MAS-100 CG Ex is for use when there is a need to test compressed gases for microbial contamination in Pharmaceutical and Food &#38; Beverage production areas.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:32:42 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck&#39;s Sputofluol Pretreatment Solution for TB Testing</title>
    <description>Sputum can be pretreated with Sputofluol in order to release any mycobacteria from surrounding mucus making the final slide easier to read.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:06:44 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck Chromocult Coliform Agar now Approved for Processed Food</title>
    <description>A test of three processed foods, sausages, cooked chicken, and non-fat dried milk, showed that Chromocult Coliform Agar demonstrates 100% equivalence to the AOAC Official Method.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:10:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>AOAC-RI Approves Merck and Biotecon Rapid Methods for Salmonella in Peanut Butter</title>
    <description>Under the AOAC-RI Emergency Response Validation (ERV) programme both  food proof ShortPrep I Kit, and Singlepath Salmonella are approved for identification of  Salmonella  in peanut butter samples.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:58:42 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Detection of Fungi using Stains/Staining Reactions</title>
    <description>Detection of fungi with various stains is quick and simple, and can be optimized through the use of ready-to-use staining solutions.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:35:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>A Complete Legionella Detection Package - Easy, Fast and Reliable</title>
    <description>Combining the benefits of Merck&#39;s Dehydrated Culture Media for Legionella detection with the sophistication of Duopath Legionella to keep water systems safe.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:40:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Are You Sure Your Product is Free of Salmonella?</title>
    <description>Merck provides a comprehensive, high-quality product portfolio for reliable food testing according to national and international standards (ISO 6579:2002, US FDA BAM, DIN etc.).</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:54:25 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck Extends Product Range of Real-time PCR Assays</title>
    <description>Merck KGaA has extended its range of foodproof products with new real-time PCR kits which can be used on many other instruments such as TaqMan-based instruments or Roche&#39;s LightCycler 480.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:01:13 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck Chromogenic Media - Fast, Safe and Cost-Effective</title>
    <description>With its innovative ChromoCult culture media, Merck pushes back the boundaries of chromogenic analysis even further.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:16:44 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck&#39;s Complete Medium for ISO 16649-1 Resuscitation of Sublethally Injured E. coli</title>
    <description>When testing foodstuffs or raw materials for Escherichia coli , it is mandatory to include a resuscitation step using MMGA. Only Merck MMGA contains everything you need in a ready to use format.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:40:10 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>New PCR assays for food-borne pathogens, beer-spoilage and GMO</title>
    <description>Merck KGaA now markets foodproof PCR products in almost all countries of the world.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:33:41 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>New Rapid Test for the Detection of  Bacillus cereus </title>
    <description>This test is the first lateral flow assay that enables the specific detection of the human pathogen Bacillus cereus in food and environmental samples after enrichment in CGY broth.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:34:21 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Neisser&#39;s Solutions -Ready-to-use Staining Solution for  Corynebacterium diphtheriae  </title>
    <description>Increasing figures for infectious diseases are bring more attention to staining solutions and staining kits worldwide. Bacteriological staining gives fast results and can indicate the next diagnostic step.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:28:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Your Media Requirements Count - Merck Custom-made Media Formulations</title>
    <description>Merck shares over 100 years of experience in culture media manufacturing with several customers in the biotech, pharma and food and beverage industry and is a partner for specialized media requirements.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:15:50 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck&#39;s Certified High Quality Peptones and Extracts for Biotech Fermentation Processes</title>
    <description>Merck KGaA offers high quality peptones as well as extracts from meat and yeast for fermentation processes in lab and production scale quantities to the Biotech industry.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:59:14 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Media for New Harmonized Microbiology: Microbial Limits Test</title>
    <description>In the future, Pharmacopoeia methods will use identical media, test organisms and performance test parameters in the US, in Europe and Japan.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:37:38 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Gram-color Modified and Tb-fluor - Two Phenol-free Staining Kits Safe, Clean and Easy</title>
    <description>Merck has developed a modified and phenol-free Gram&#39;s staining kit and phenol-free Tb-fluor staining kit that are simple to handle and user-friendly.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:17:33 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck&#39;s New Dehydrated ChromoCult Listeria Selective Agar According to ISO 11290</title>
    <description>A new cost effective dehydrated chromogenic medium with easily interpretable results, L. monocytogenes appears as blue-green colonies surrounded by a halo.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 20:37:43 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck&#39;s Tb-color Staining Kit for Cold Staining of Acid Fast Bacteria</title>
    <description>Tb-color offers a modified Ziehl-Neelsen staining which works without heating (Kinyoun method). Pre-treatment with Sputofluol frees the bacteria from the surrounding sputum and cell material.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 11:43:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Did You Ever Have a &#39;Positive&#39; Media Fill Test?</title>
    <description>Avoid a media related positive by using Merck&#39;s gamma-irradiated TSB and non-animal derived irradiated TSB for sterility testing and validation of aseptic filling procedures.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:22:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>MMGA - Merck&#39;s New Complete Medium for the Resuscitation of Sublethally Injured  E. coli </title>
    <description>Mineral Modified Glutamate Agar (MMGA) - according to ISO 16649 Part 1. Resuscitation, a mandatory method for sublethally injured E. coli in food and foodstuff.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:39:03 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck&#39;s New Chromogenic Medium for Detection of  Enterobacter sakazakii </title>
    <description>An excellent value chromogenic medium for the detection of Enterobacter sakazakii in milk powder and infant formula.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:46:44 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>NEW - Lateral flow assay Singlepath L&#39;mono</title>
    <description>The wide range of innovative rapid tests available from Merck KGaA / EMD Chemicals has been extended to now include Singlepath L&#39;mono (Cat. No. 1.04148.).</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:50:55 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>NEW Merck Microbiology Manual 12th Edition - 688 pages including CD-ROM</title>
    <description>The highlights of the Merck Microbiology Manual include: Detailed background information on all product lines, High resolution colour pictures .......</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:37:14 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck&#39;s Tb-fluor - Phenol-free Fluorescence Detection of Mycobacteria</title>
    <description>The safe, clean and userfriendly staining kit for fluorescence detection of mycobacteria in histological and clinical material.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:28:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck&#39;s Dehydrated Culture Medium for Detection of Pseudomonas in Food and Water.</title>
    <description>Merck offers a dehydrated culture medium and two selective supplements for the detection and enumeration of Pseudomonas species in food, pharmaceutical products and water. Free samples are available.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:18:16 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>NEW - Ready-to-Use Culture Media from Merck -Simply get started!</title>
    <description>The wide range of microbiology products available form Merck KGaA has been extended to now include Ready-to-Use culture media for all sorts of applications.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:51:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>New ChromoCult Enterococci Agar for Detection of Enterococci in Water</title>
    <description>ChromoCult Enterococci Agar is an approved, excellent value medium for the detection of Enterococci in water</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:11:42 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck&#39;s Gram Staining Kit now Modified and Phenol-free</title>
    <description>Merck has developed a modified and phenol-free Gram staining kit that satisfies even the highest diagnostic demands and yet is simple to handle and user-friendly at the same time.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:37:19 GMT</pubDate>
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