The process for picking up prescriptions is remarkably simple for a consumer. They turn up at a pharmacist, hand over their prescription and leave with their medication in hand, ready to head home and take their prescriptions as directed. Most will spend very little (if any) time contemplating the production process- they usually do not take int...

The humble thermometer. Who would have thought a simple device to measure changes in temperature would become one of the cornerstones of food and medical safety protocols? The earlier temperature measuring devices date back hundreds of years. Primitive thermoscopes were used by European scientists such as Galileo Galilei, who calibrated them to ...