The phrase "a cross contamination" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to food safety, hygiene, or any situation where one substance unintentionally contaminates another.
Example: "To prevent a cross contamination, always use separate cutting boards for raw meat and vegetables."
Alternatives: "an accidental contamination" or "a cross-contamination event".
Just two days ago, Frieden said he found out that a cross contamination in one of the CDC's influenza laboratories led to a highly pathogenic strain of "bird flu", or H5N1, to be accidentally shipped to a Department of Agriculture lab that was expecting a safer strain.
As a cross contamination control, we analysed the polymorphic microsatellite markers D2S123, D5S346 (previously mentioned) and D17S25in DNA samples obtained from two different passages.
After a cross-contamination check, potential contaminated clones with similarity coefficients greater than 0.25 were removed.
"We don't know if there is another letter or if this is a cross-contamination," Lieutenant Nichols said.
We present a cross-contamination free highly-parallel picoliter dispenser based on direct liquid displacement.
This enables a cross-contamination-free measurement system for patient near application as e.g. within infusion systems.
"Inappropriate laboratory standards and a cross-contamination of West Nile virus samples with SARS coronavirus in the laboratory led to the infection of the doctoral student," the committee reported.
How do you account for human error?" If plants devote massive resources to preventing the highly unusual prospect of a cross-contamination fatality, might other food-safety concerns fall by the wayside?
We also iii) performed a cross-contamination experiment which demonstrated that the centrifugation technique used to separate FIZ and host tissue is not suitable for the observation of zooxanthellae freshly isolated from coral tissues by 31P NMR.
The Little Owl was last inspected on Oct. 3, and earned an A grade, with 10 violation points for minor infractions including a cross-contamination problem with raw and cooked food.
A society in which one could be guilty without doing anything deliberate, in which surveillance was assumed to be total, and in which shame and fear and humiliation were profoundly internalised – it is, as Taylor suggests, more than plausible that "Such, Such" evinces a cross-contamination with Orwell's most famous novel.
