Bruker Corporation and Agilent Technologies, Inc. announced yesterday that Bruker and Agilent have entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement. Pursuant to this agreement, Bruker will acquire c...

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has proposed to add eight chemicals to a list of substances of very high concern (SVHCs). These chemicals including hexavalent chromium and boron compounds could e...

CEN together with the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) and the German "Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V." (DIN) have opened a call for two project leaders for the development of standardised method...

With the SPECTRO MS at Pittcon 2010 SPECTRO presents the first fully simultaneous measuring mass spectrometer with inductively coupled plasma in the world. The instrument received the PittCon 2010 Edi...

After years of small-step developments, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, announced the launch of a newly designed Inductively Coupled ...

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, yesterday announced that it has agreed to purchase the remaining interest of its joint venture in Ind...

UK-based researchers now have found indications that arsenobetaine is not that inert in human metabolism as previously thought. ...

In the USA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published a toxicological review of inorganic arsenic in a Federal Register Notice from February 19, 2010. The review is based on the agency’s...

Time is running out to have engineering controls in place for hexavalent chromium. OSHA standard 1910.134 requires all business regardless of time to have engineering safety controls implemented prio...

Herbal remedies can kill, says an Australian forensic pathologist, who warns against the "false perception" they are "safer than manufactured medicines". ...