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August is National Water Quality Month! Businesses and the public should take time this month to reflect on water conservation and pollution habits. Many of us contaminate waterways without realizing it, due to local customs we’ve grown up practicing. Many of those practices seem harmless to the environment. Following, are 6 different ways you can contribute to maintaining a higher water quality, while protecting the environment.1.Take your car to a public/automated car wash Wa …

CP Lab Safety staff members volunteer each year with a local non-profit to help protect the environment. As a Bay Area Certified Green Business, we believe it’s important to contribute to our local habitat through different volunteering efforts. This year we worked with Golden Gate Parks National Conservancy in an effort to protect the endangered Mission Blue Butterfly.  The Mission Blue Butterfly is native to the San Francisco area and has been declared endangered by …

Sustainability Our global future depends on sustainability. Moving towards the implementation of sustainable development practices is important to ensure that everyone has a fair share of the world’s natural resources and that future generations can sufficiently meet their own needs. The rapid growth of population, increasing the demand for food and water in addition to industrialization and economic globalization has put tremendous pressure on the environment and earth’s natural resource …

CP Lab Safety now offers sterilization services for most of their containers. Bottles and containers can either be sterilized through E-Beam Radiation, or undergo Level 1 certified cleaning to remove particles and impurities. A variety of different glass and plastic containers can undergo these premium cleaning procedures.CP Lab Safety utilizes the only X-Ray and DEA approved E-Beam facility in the USA. The cleaning facility is ISO 11137 and ISO 13485 certified, FDA registered, DEA regist …

A (Very) Brief History of Pi Archimedes of Syracuse was th e first mathematician to calculate pi. He used the Pythagorean Theorem to find the area of two regular polyg ons (the polygon inscribed within the circle and the polygon within which the circle was circumscribed). Through this calculation, Archimedes was able to show that pi is between 3 1/7 and 3 10/71. The use of the Greek letter “π” to describe this number was introduced in 1706 by William Jones and was lat …