A provincially run facility that creates crucial materials used to detect cancer failed its latest Health Canada inspection after the regulator found the Winnipeg facility mishandled test results, didn’t follow proper sterility practices and inadequately trained workers.
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories has announced an agreement with the Sylvia Fedoruk Centre for Nuclear Innovation - part of the University of Saskatchewan - that will enable it to increase by more than 30 times its current production of the rare actinium-225 radioisotope.
Agreement between CNL and the Sylvia Fedoruk Centre for Nuclear Innovation will increase CNL’s production of Actinium-225 by several orders of magnitude,.