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Here at CP Lab Safety, we preach safety all day, every day. We believe safety in the workplace should never be taken lightly, and that there is always room for improvement. We’ve taken OSHA’s top 10 safety violations of 2021 and turned them into a handy list of easily palatable new year’s resolutions. Make safety a priority this year, and it will make a positive difference in your company. Doing small things like taking a few extra hours each year for safety training can make a huge dif …

You’ve probably been told at some point in your life that the reason you’re ready to take a nap after your Thanksgiving meal is due to the high levels of Tryptophan in turkey. Well, that myth has been busted.Tryptophan is an essential amino acid and is actually something our bodies do not produce on their own. Therefore, we must get it from our food in order to survive. Tryptophan must compete with other amino acids before it can make it through our blood-brain barrier, and only a small a …

We all know air pollution is one of the biggest environmental challenges today, but not all of us are clear on just how big of an issue it really is. It is not only proving to be detrimental for the place we call home but is also currently a leading cause of death in humans worldwide. Right now, 9 out of 10 people breathe polluted air daily, causing millions of premature deaths every year. Stroke, chronic respiratory disease and lung cancer are among the many severe health issues that are …

It is no surprise that COVID-19 has caused global supply chain disruptions. It is, however, a surprise to many of us that nearly two years into the pandemic, this will seemingly be ongoing for the foreseeable future. There seems to be no industry in existence that is unaffected by the broken supply chain. For the scientific community, there have been huge struggles with obtaining the materials needed for research projects that are necessary to advance in areas of chemistry and life science …

Dogs are such incredible creatures. They are by our side when we need them most, and they’ve been trained to perform a wide variety of tasks over their 20,000 years as our best friends. They never cease to amaze, and now they’ve even successfully been trained to sniff out COVID-19 infections in people, with shockingly high accuracy. Could this be an efficient new way to prevent the spread of the virus?Two dogs began their work at the Miami International Airport last week, by the names of O …