a culture of service...
September, 2015
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A better way to isolate Salmonella and Shigella...
HardyCHROM SS
Ever wish for a stool screening method that would quickly eliminate false positives from Proteus?
Hardy's new patented HardyCHROM SS selects for Salmonella and Shigella without interference from Proteus and other lactose negative bacteria.
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Hardy's Petri Porter will conveniently transport up to 60 standard Petri plates to and from your incubator or refrigerator to the benchtop.
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| Brainteasers 
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How did the Yankee Dollar get to be nicknamed a "buck?"
In the 1700s in America, a common medium of exchange and barter was the tanned hide of a deer.
One of the earliest references of the use of "buck" was in 1748, about 44 years before the first U.S. dollar was minted, where there is a reference to the exchange rate for a cask of whiskey traded to Native Americans being "5 bucks," referring to deerskins.
Once the U.S. dollar was officially introduced after the passing of the Coinage Act of 1792, it quickly became the leading item used as a medium of exchange, but the term "buck" stuck around. By the mid-nineteenth century was being used as a popular slang term for the dollar.
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| For clean room use... ReadyRack 
Do you use tubed media in your clean room? If so, you will want to check out Hardy's new ReadyRack. It contains tubes of either TSB or FTM that are ready for entrance into your clean room. The tubes can be easily sprayed with IPA and will not introduce particles to the clean room. More information...
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All formats available...
Control
Organisms
Hardy offers a complete selection of microorganisms for your QC program. These MBL organisms are licensed derivatives from ATCC. They are available in the swab or pellet format; qualitative or quantitative. Order from Hardy for immediate service and delivery.
View the entire catalog online.
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For the poultry microbiologist...
Poultry
Catalog
If you are involved in poultry microbiology, you will not want to miss Hardy's new Poultry Microbiology Mini-Catalog. It's packed with good ideas for those that are tasked with keeping our food supply safe!
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Think about it...
* When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?
* Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist
but a person drives a race car not called a racist?
* Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites?
* Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things
* If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific
mean to make terrible?
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Save time and money...
Rapid Test Kits
Want to learn how to speed up your identifications?
Hardy offers a 17 page booklet on how to identify bacteria using rapid test methods.
Contact your account rep for assistance.
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Jonas Salk
1914 ~ 1995
Discovered and developed the first successful vaccine against polio.
"I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like."
"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next."
"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience."
"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."
"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."
"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner."
When asked if he would patent the vaccine, he replied "There is no patent...can you patent the sun?"
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A road for picky travelers
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Attention: Clinical Microbiologists...
Are You Ready
for IQCP?
We will soon be singing Auld Lang Syne
to the old ways of performing
QC in Microbiology.
Are you prepared for the
new CMS requirements
coming on January 1?
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For Detection and Identification...
HardyCHROM Vibrio
Features:
- The only chromogenic media to differentiate V. cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus on the same plate
- Fluorogenic reaction adds another dimension for thorough differentiation
- Superior performance to TCBS; greater sensitivity and specificity
- Provides a cost effective alternative to expensive molecular methods
- Also available in CRITERION™ Dehydrated Culture Media
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
colonies on HardyCHROM Vibrio culture media
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Uncool
Cucumbers
The increasing incidence
of Salmonellosis
A
Salmonella
outbreak was reported last month due to contamination found in cucumbers grown in Mexico.
While
Salmonella
infection can cause variable symptoms, salmonellosis is often very serious, especially in young, aged, or immune compromised patients. In this particular outbreak, there were 3 reported deaths and over 100 hospitalizations.
Salmonella outbreaks appear to be on the rise; to date, six have been reported in 2015, and a similar cucumber related outbreak happened in early 2014. Although many associate
Salmonella
with poultry or poultry products, cucumbers and other produce can become contaminated and cause outbreaks.
Proper food safety is necessary to avoid future epidemics such as these. Simply washing and rinsing raw produce under running water (no soaps or detergents) before consumption is a good safety measure to ensure food is safe to eat. Additionally, the FDA recommends using a clean produce brush on firm or hard-skinned produce, such as cucumbers, before eating them. This not only reduces the bacterial count, but also helps to clean off any dirt, fertilizer, or grime that may have accumulated on the outer surface of the fruit or vegetable during growth or distribution.
Food testing is another critical part in identifying the source of the outbreak and in routinely ensuring public safety. If adequate techniques are not used, contaminated products can reach the consumer. In addition, if records of food products are not maintained to document the chain of custody through distributors or suppliers, this may delay the ability of investigators to trace back outbreaks to their source.
Currently, there are many ways to successfully screen, culture, and identify
Salmonella using reference methods such as
USDA FSIS
,
FDA BAM
, AOAC, or standard clinical media based on the sample or specimen type.
Hardy Diagnostics offers a variety of general culture media, as well as selective and differential media, and rapid tests to assist laboratories. Below is a small selection of some of the products Hardy offers. For a complete listing, please view our
online catalog
or contact the Hardy Diagnostics
Technical Services Department
for more information:
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Description
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Reference
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Tetrathionate Broth
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Brilliant Green Sulfa Agar
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XLT4 Agar
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LIA
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Compact Dry™ Salmonella
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XLD Agar
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Rappaport-Vassiliadis Medium
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HE Agar
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HardyCHROM SS Agar
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Clinical
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HardyCHROM Salmonella
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Hardy's XLT4 Agar Plate for the detection of Salmonella
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Warning:
Pun Zone Ahead
- The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Circumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
- I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island. But it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
- She was only a whiskey maker. But he loved her still.
- A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class. It was a weapon of math disruption.
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"Dogs are better
than human beings...
because they know,
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to learn how easy it is
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