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FDA Warns Consumers Not To Use Skin Products Made By Clarcon Due To Bacterial Contamination Risk
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that Clarcon Biological Chemistry Laboratory Inc. of Roy, Utah, is voluntarily recalling some skin sanitizers and skin protectants marketed under several different brand names because of high levels of disease-causing bacteria found in the product during a recent inspection. The FDA is warning consumers to not use any Clarcon products.
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U.N. Human Rights Council Adopts 'Landmark' Maternal Mortality Resolution
The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a "landmark resolution" acknowledging that "preventable maternal mortality and morbidity" is a human rights issue and that national and international efforts to protect women worldwide should be scaled up, the Hudson Valley Press Online reports. More than 70 U.N. member states cosponsored the resolution, led by Colombia and New Zealand (Hudson Valley Press Online, 6/18). Pakistan was one of the member states that signed on to the resolution, the International News reports (International News, 6/19).
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Boxers Holyfield, Retta To Participate In HIV/AIDS Charity Fight In Ethiopia
Boxer Evander Holyfield will fight Sammy Retta on July 26 in Ethiopia in an effort to raise money for HIV/AIDS organizations, Reuters India reports. Event organizers hope to raise between $5 million and $10 million from the fight. "I continue to strive to be the very best, but what got me to come here is" HIV/AIDS, Holyfield said, adding, "If we don"t find a cure to this, we"ll be extinct." According to Everton Boland -- CEO of Golden Globe, which is promoting the fight -- a significant portion of money raised will go directly to organizations addressing HIV/AIDS. Organizers said that a group established by African first ladies is the only recipient selected to date but they are considering others (Malone, Reuters India, 5/20).
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Glasgow Based BioOut Active In Flu Vaccine Testing

BioOut is a strategic partner for several of the world"s leading vaccine manufacturers. As such, BioOut is currently working with partners on projects to develop vaccines against Pandemic Influenza (Swine Flu and Avian Flu). BioOut is a forward-thinking contract testing organisation which has been inspected and approved to GMP standard by the UK MHRA. The company has wide experience of testing and releasing virus vaccine, including Pandemic and Seasonal flu, and provides the release testing of vaccine lots to meet the European Pharmacopeia release guidelines. BioOut has expertise in the handling of vaccine harvests and neutralisation of the virus lots for testing. In a relatively new innovation BioOut can offer an EP compliant alternative method to the lengthy and costly Mycoplasma test EP 2.6.1; PCR methodologies are used to detect mycoplasma, this can reduce the timelines for this test to 2 days rather than the 35 days this test would normally require and reduce costs by a factor of 4. Nexxus Scotland


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