Phax-Kit
notes: label: Description
content: A label on the front of the case reads in part “FISHER SCIENTIFIC CO. / . . .” A label inside reads “PHAX-KIT / MODEL C / FOR THE / SCHARER PHOSPHATASE TEST / MANUFACTURED ONLY BY / APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTE / NEW YORK CITY.” The test indicates the safety of pasteurization. Kay and Graham introduced a revised phosphatase test for the efficacy of pasteurization in 1933. Harry A. Scharer, who worked in the Chemical Laboratory in the Bureau of Food and Drugs, Department of Health, in New York City, introduced a modified version of the test in 1938.
label: Description
content: Ref: H. Scharer, “Improvements in the Rapid Phosphatase Test for Detection of Improper Pasteurization of Milk and Its Products,” Journal of Food Protection 1 (1938): 35-38.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83525U17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kit, Testing, Urinary
label: Object Name
content: urinary testing kit
label: Other Terms
content: Kit, Testing, Urinary; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 11 1/4 in x 2 in; 13.335 cm x 28.575 cm x 5.08 cm