Suresh Jadhav, executive director of Serum Institute of India, one of the three firms racing to make the vaccine, said that he expects to send a batch for testing by September and phase 1 clinical trials should start by January.

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He mentions use cases like batch processing, scientific computing, video and image processing and rendering, testing and Web crawling.

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Beyond this, every batch of synthetic food color produced has to be FDA certified through further testing before being used.

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The first batch of pre-production superhero gloves will hit the streets of LA later this year for testing and evaluation.

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The batch, produced by the Tanzania Pharmaceutical Industry (TPI), was immediately recalled and subjected to further testing, which revealed that it was sub-standard.

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