First developed in the late 1950s, the HACCP system was designed to ensure quality and food safety for NASA’s manned space program. Decades later, HACCP has become a fundamental factor for not only the food industry, but cosmetics and pharmaceuticals as well.
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Worldwide, there are more than 300 million biological specimens stored at temperatures below -80 °C, but most of them are unusable. According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, up to 70% of those samples are worthless because the lack of traceability. Without proper environmental storage records, there’s no way to validate the samples have been adequately preserved.
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Filtered water is a requirement for drinking supplies, food processing plants, so it’s no surprise it’s of the utmost importance for the pharmaceutical industry. Without a high-quality water filtration system in place, contaminants in the water can alter the lifesaving medications and solutions we depend on.
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