They are especially effective in recognizing contaminants and analyzing the overall quality of foods.

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People spend hours analyzing their next purchase by comparing quality and prices in order to get the very best deal possible.

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Founded in 1898, the firm, with its famous Readers Guide to Periodical Literature and other high-quality library indexes, long occupied a comfortable niche: collecting, analyzing and cross-referencing published works.

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As I was first to report in 2007, Merck and then-partner Schering-Plough delayed analyzing the study, called ENHANCE, for months over what they believed were data quality problems.

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