July 2015 - In This Issue:

WELCOME. Let me introduce you to Daily Laboratories. 
Daily Laboratories, Division of Mobilab, Inc. is a private ISO-certified laboratory serving diverse industries including food, dairy, meat, produce, water, cosmetic, plastic and paper companies.  We can test products and environmental samples.

 The laboratory was established in 1960 as a raw milk testing laboratory. We are a woman-owned business and have expanded to provide microbiological services for other industries. We are also capable of testing for the presence of pesticides residue and allergens in environmental samples. 

"We partner with our clients to deliver customized solutions that resolve their issues."
Brainteasers 

1) Smaller than four, yet bigger than three; to make it your food, you must add an E. What is it?

 

  

2) What is the only word in the English language that contains three consecutive double letters?

 
3) Can you name the words for five body parts that contain only three letters?

 
Answers below. 
Bottled Water Recall 
Niagara Bottling LLC has recalled 14 brands. 

 

Niagara Bottling LLC has recalled all spring water products produced at its two Pennsylvania facilities between June 10-18, 2015, after being informed that the water source was potentially compromised by E. coli bacteria.

Niagara stated that the bacteria were found on June 10, noting, "As the spring source did not notify us in a timely manner, we have discontinued the use of this source."
The company added that no reports of illness or injury had been received to date, and that finished product testing had not detected any contaminants or other issues. Read more here.

 
State Raw Milk Laws 
NCSL Maps State Raw Milk Laws as 2015 Legislatures Reach Adjournment
    
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Perhaps no other organization in the country is better positioned to know the best time for drawing a new map of current state raw milk laws and policies than the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).

The bipartisan group, based in Denver, closely tracks state and territorial legislative sessions, and it has chosen this moment as they are adjourning to report on what it simply calls "State Milk Laws." The 2015 legislative season is over in most Midwestern, Western, and border states, and others are rapidly reaching their adjournment dates.

  Read more.

 

 
Proper Hand Hygiene 

                                                                                               
              Do You Know?? 
                                                        
Correctly done when needed, handwashing may be the single most important behavior that can significantly reduce the transmission of foodborne illnesses.[ 1 ] Poor personal hygiene on the part of food workers was a contributing factor in roughly 4 out of 10 (38%) foodborne illness outbreaks between 1993 and 1997.[ 2 ] The FDA Food Code requires  more.
Mark Twain 
1835  -  1910                                        

His birth name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He published more than 30 books in his lifetime.  He used the pen name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass before he used the name Mark Twain.  

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"Get your facts first. Then you can distort them as you please."

"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and those who claim to accomplish things. The first group is smaller." 

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."



Lisa Strickland
309-691-4513

It is our commitment to provide personalized service and customized testing to meet the   needs of our clients.


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1) Pi (3.14)  2) bookkeeper    3)  there are 10. eye, ear, leg, arm, jaw, gum, toe, lip, hip, rib.