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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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    <title>MMGA - Merck&#39;s New Complete Medium for Resuscitation of Sublethally Injured  E.coli </title>
    <description>New Mineral Modified Glutamate Agar - MMGA has the unique combination of glutamate, selected minerals and agar which results in a very rapid and effective resuscitation of injured E. coli</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:24:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>NEW - Envirocheck Contact Plates from Merck - Simply Get Started!</title>
    <description>Merck offers two types of contact plates: contact plates for isolators and cleanrooms, triple bagged and gamma-irradiated as well as single bagged contact plates to examine surfaces.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:12:43 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Merck&#39;s Water Brochure on Microbial Examination of Water</title>
    <description>This new brochure from Merck KGaA presents official methods for the microbiological examination of water and relevant methods as specified by international standards.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:06:43 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>NEW- Lateral Flow Assay Duopath Legionella</title>
    <description>Merck KGaA / EMD Chemicals Launches New Rapid Test for Legionella for simultaneous detection of all  Legionella  species and separately of  L.pneumophila  with the same device.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:02:25 GMT</pubDate>
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