Pharmacy Daily | Dispensary Corner 06 May 13

HERE ’s a great way to ensure staff retention. A real estate firm in New York is offering its employees a special pay rise, as long as they demonstrate their commitment to the business in ink - by getting a tattoo of the company’s green and black logo. So far 40 workers have taken up the offer, and are being rewarded with a 15% wage hike. Legislators in the US state of South Carolina are doing their bit for the obesity crisis, with a proposed ban on junk food in the Governor’s mansion. The budget proposal includes a special clause which would prohibit Governor Hikki Haley’s office from purchasing meals such as takeaway pizza or hamburgers with public money, whether for employee treats or entertaining. It mirrors a welfare plan from the governor which limits what people are able to buy using food stamps, with the senators saying it’s only fair that the Governor also comply with the healthy purchasing requirements she’s promoting for poor people. MOVE over sniffer dogs...this gives new meaning to the term “sting operation”. London Heathrow Airport is training bees...yes...bees, to detect concealed explosives in the ongoing war on terrorism. Hailed as cheaper and easier to train than dogs, the bees, which have been cleverly labelled ‘bomble-bees’, are packed inside a hand-held detector and are trained to poke their tongues out upon sensing an illegal chemical or potential explosive. Upon this reflex, infra-red sensors inside the container pick up that the bees have sensed something, at which point a customs official will step. Tests have apparently shown the bees have the ability to detect tiny traces of Semtex, which is used to make plastic explosives.

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