Bartender’s Guide to Sanitation
Food safety and sanitation aren’t limited to the kitchen. Bars should also have procedures in place for a sanitary environment. Quite frankly, we want to know the restaurants and bars we attend are clean and [...]
The Hard Truth About Water
We all know that hard water can be a headache. A simple household task, like cleaning the bathroom sink, turns into a long and laborious scrubbing process. Faucets and bathroom fixtures become the home of [...]
Human pH Values
Your body tightly controls pH levels to maintain overall good health. Different components of your body have different pH levels, depending on their bodily functions. Exercise, diet and medications can affect your body’s pH levels. [...]
Lichens and Litmus and pH! Oh My!
Dorothy might have been more fascinated with lions and tigers and bears, but we’ve been making litmus paper since Precision began, and we think it’s just as fascinating. Like the Wizard of Oz, litmus paper [...]
How to Detect Leaks in Sealed Equipment
Equipment designed to be air-tight, such as incubators, pharmaceutical isolators, glove boxes, and the like need to be tested for leaks. An article published in the journal, Clean Air and Environment1, discusses the difference between [...]
Bugs on a Plane
In a world, where flying on a plane is a convenient way to travel, hordes of people are in close quarters, and the potential spread of disease is eminent. One man will embark on a [...]
The Human Eye: Perception of Color
We are often asked if we can make test strips or color charts in smaller, closer increments, and we always want to say “YES!”, but we sometimes have limitations. To understand color chart limitations, we [...]
Are you a Supertaster?
Genetic Taste Tests and What They Tell You Many human traits are determined by a single pair of alleles. An allele is an alternative form of a gene, located at a specific position on a [...]
Oops! Errors in pH Measurement
Dipping a test strip into a solution and matching it to a color chart seems easy enough, but what you may not realize is there are outside factors that can affect the results. There are [...]
Back to Basics: Acids, Bases & the pH Scale
Precision Laboratories & Precision Europe manufacture a wide variety of pH test strips, some narrow-range, wide-range, acidic, basic, and so on and so forth. But what is the meaning behind these pH measurements?! Okay, so [...]
DIY pH Experiment: Making a Natural pH Indicator
We make a whole range of pH test strips, so we thought it would be fun for you to try making your own pH indicator in this DIY pH Experiment. This experiment is brought to you by [...]
Tech Talk with BSG Handcraft: Acidity in Wine
After last week’s blog post, we were interested in learning more about acidity in wine, so we turned to the experts at BSG Handcraft. BSG Handcraft supplies the home fermentation industry and small commercial producers [...]