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Moveable Feast, Inc. recalls products because of possible health risk

05/03/2006  April 24, 2006 -- /FDA News/ -- Moonachie, N.J. -- Moveable Feast, Inc. of Moonachie, New Jersey is recalling Smoked Scottish and Smoked Norwegian Salmon, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

Pascal Company, Inc. initiates worldwide recall of two of its products

05/03/2006  April 27, 2006 -- /FDA News/ -- Bellevue, Wash. -- Pascal Company, Inc., located in Bellevue, Washington, is recalling all lots and all flavors of two of their products because they may be contaminated with bacteria called Burkholderia cepacia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Take a fresh look at food safety

05/03/2006  May 1, 2006 -- /PRNewswire/ -- WASHINGTON -- Acting on research data that indicates two-thirds of adults turn to the Internet for basic safe food handling information, the Partnership for Food Safety Education today introduces a new evolution of its popular website http://www.fightbac.org/.

Novx and QUASAR Federal Systems (QFS) join forces to form a strategic alliance

05/03/2006  May 1, 2006 -- San Jose, Calif. -- As electronic products and devices become more complex and their resulting geometries decline, reducing the cost of failed or damaged product requires a new approach.

Tulip BioMed receives FDA 510(k) clearance and launches sales of its disposable surgical instruments

05/03/2006  May 1, 2006 -- /MARKET WIRE/ -- SAN DIEGO,Calif. -- Tulip BioMed, Inc., formerly known as Cell Bio-Systems, Inc. (OTC: CBSI), today announced it has launched sales of its new disposable surgical instruments for the removal of soft tissue and fluid for the plastic surgery market.



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High-speed Switch

05/02/2006  The FSUSB31 480-Mbps USB 2.0 switch protects against electrostatic discharge (ESD) up to 8 kV, excessive capacitance, noise, and other factors that affect performance in portable devices.

Tester Extension Card

05/02/2006  The Pin Scale HX high-speed extension card for the 93000 SOC Series tester supports device characterization for high-speed devices and interfaces with data rates up to 12.8 Gbps. It provides the required signal integrity for at-speed design characterization and production test of PCI Express, HyperTransport, and SERDES, as well as emerging high-speed memory and ultra-speed Datacom interfaces.

Vanguard, AnalogicTech forge BCD tech pact

05/02/2006  May 2, 2006 - Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc. will utilize Taiwan specialty foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp. to produce its 0.35-micron multivoltage mixed-signal ModularBCD process technology on 200mm wafers.

Managing the RoHS Risk

05/02/2006  This article discusses how a producer may respond to an alleged violation in England and Wales, in part because the English enactment includes a defense that, once properly understood and used, may assist a producer in not violating the regulations in the first place.
By Emilia L. Sweeney and Michael L. Ferguson, Lane Powell PC

Microwave Plasma Inline System

05/02/2006  The Plasma System 80 microwave plasma inline system cleans advanced packages prior to die attach, wire bond, and encapsulation without harmful UV light in a variable size process chamber. The system applies 2.45-GHz microwaves through an applicator on top of the vacuum chamber, producing extended plasma without damage.

Harris & Harris Group invests in Innovalight

05/02/2006  Harris & Harris Group Inc. announced that it led a $7.5 million Series B round of financing of privately held Innovalight, Inc., of Santa Clara, California. The Series B financing included Apax Partners, ARCH Venture Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds and Triton Ventures.

Japan chip equipment industry manages slight loss in '05

05/01/2006  May 1, 2006 - Japanese manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment suffered their first slowdown in three years during fiscal 2H05 (ended in March 2006), but a surge in demand in the second half of the year kept the losses to a minimum, according to new data from the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ).