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19-4011.02 — Food Science Technicians

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Tools

Anaerobic jars or accessories
  • Anaerobic jars
Bench scales
  • Precision scales
Benchtop centrifuges
Binocular light compound microscopes
  • Compound binocular light microscopes
Calorimeters
Chemical absorption gas analyzers
  • Gas analyzers
Colorimeters
  • Color testing equipment
Decontamination shower
  • Safety showers
Desktop computers
Dropping pipettes
Electronic counters
  • Colony counters
Electronic toploading balances
Extracting equipment for laboratories
  • Distilling equipment
  • Siphons
Eyewashers or eye wash stations
  • Eyewash fountains
Fire extinguishers
Fluorescent microscopes
Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators
  • Laboratory mechanical convection incubators
Fume hoods or cupboards
  • Fume hoods
Gas burners
  • Bunsen burners
Goggles
  • Safety goggles
Handheld thermometer
  • Dry bulb thermometers
  • Handheld thermometers
Heating or drying equipment or accessories
  • Dessicators
Homogenizers
Inoculating devices
  • Inoculation tubes
Lab coats
  • Laboratory coats
Laboratory balances
Laboratory beakers
Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers
  • Laboratory blenders
Laboratory burets
  • Laboratory glass burets
Laboratory clamps
Laboratory flasks
  • Erlenmeyer flasks
Laboratory funnels
Laboratory hotplates
  • Laboratory hot plates
Laboratory knives
Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
  • Hot air ovens
  • Laboratory convection ovens
Laboratory mills
  • Grinders
Laboratory mixers
Laboratory separators
  • Laboratory strainers
Laboratory stirring rods
Laboratory tongs
Laser printers
Magnetic spin bars or stir bars or stirring beads
  • Magnetic stir bars
Magnetic stirrers
Magnetic tools
  • Magnetic retrievers
Metal detectors
Microbiology analyzers
  • Bioluminometers
Microplate readers
  • Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ELISA plate readers
  • Microwell readers
Microscope slides
Moisture balances
Moisture meters
Multipurpose or general test tubes
  • General purpose laboratory test tubes
Notebook computers
Optical diffraction apparatus
  • Particle size testing equipment
Pasteur or transfer pipettes
  • Pasteur pipettes
Personal computers
Pestle or mortars
  • Mortars and pestles
Petri plates or dishes
  • Petri dishes
pH meters
  • Universal indicators
Protective gloves
  • Safety gloves
Psychrometers
  • Wet bulb thermometers
Remote reading thermometers
  • Temperature probes
Specialty plates for bacteria
  • Agar plates
Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
  • Steam autoclaves
  • Steam sterilizers
Triple beam balances
Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Ultraviolet UV lights
Vacuum ovens
Viscosimeters
  • Viscosity testing equipment
  • Zhan cups
Water analysis systems
  • Water activity meters
Water baths
  • Boiling water baths

Technology

Data base user interface and query software
  • Database software
  • Microsoft Access
Electronic mail software
  • Microsoft Outlook
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Graphics software
Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

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