Since the rise of the industry, cannabis cultivators and processors have navigated uncharted waters in terms of compliance and contamination. It’s a natural biological process for plants to contract ...

While cannabis has many beneficial properties for both medical and recreational users, it also comes with intrinsic dangers like mold and yeast. Growing cannabis sometimes involves pesticides, and the ...

Battelle places used N95 masks in a shipping container like this one where they coat them in a colorless vapor that decontaminates them so they can be re-used by health professionals. Battelle places ...

An industrial chemical accident. An attack with a chemical warfare agent. Either of these situations can leave many people in acute need of decontamination. Until recently, the US government’s ...

David Leidy was walking in a remote stretch of Bureau of Land Management property near Dixon in 2022 when he found a heavy ...

Certain methods of decontaminating medical face masks for repeated use during the COVID-19 pandemic appear to damage the masks' integrity and protective function, according to new research. Certain ...

The main purpose of decontamination at a hazardous materials emergency is to limit the spread of contaminants from the release area, or "hot zone," to include the cleaning of responders and their ...

PERHAPS sparked by the devastating natural disasters and terrorist attacks the nation has experienced in the recent past, a renewed emphasis has been placed on ensuring that decontamination procedures ...

Selective digestive tract decontamination (SDD) and selective oropharyngeal decontamination (SOD) are infection-prevention measures used in the treatment of some patients in intensive care, but ...