Dispensary Corner 15 Sep 14
September 15, 2014
NO holes in this story.
Ordinary cold chain
requirements for some drugs are
expensive enough but imagine
having to fund this security
scenario.
Swiss cheesemakers, beleagured
by multiple inferior imitations
claiming to be the real Swiss deal,
have resorted to deep freeze
security.
According to stuff.co.nz, some
10,000 strains of milk bacteria are
kept at -80o C in a Bern freezer
as part of the program to protect
against copycats.
To safeguard the country’s
reputation as the top
cheesemaker with an industry
worth around $700m in exports,
DNA fingerprinting is used to
identify the organisms used to
culture any cheese being tested
for forgery.
It is estimated by the association
Switzerland Cheese Marketing
that about 10% of cheese being
sold in Europe as Swiss cheese is
fake, says stuff.co.nz.
MUSICAL surgery.
Not everyone has to ‘perform’
during surgery on their body,
but a Lithuanian violinist who
was being surgically treated for
uncontrollable tremors did just
that.
The Telegraph reported that
while Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical
Centre surgeons inserted an
electrode to emit regular pulses
into her brain, she was kept
conscious and asked to play her
violin while they ascertained
that the electrode was correctly
positioned.
The operation was a success.
WELCOME senior customers;
they may save your business.
Faced with a masked gang armed
with sledge hammers robbing his
favourite Birmingham jewellery
store, 60 year old Graham
Tisdale snatched back a bag of
stolen goods from the gang, the
Telegraph reports, saving the
stores viability, claimed the owner.
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