Microbiology News: Oct 2012

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Microbiology News: Oct 2012

Growth Direct™ System Now Available for Multiple Applications

30 Oct 2012 | WaterPharmaceutical

Rapid Micro Biosystems product portfolio expands to support environmental monitoring testing, sterility testing, water testing and bioburden testing within the same instrument using the proven detection technology. more...

AOAC-PTM Approval for 3M Tecra Listeria VIA for Environmental Testing

30 Oct 2012 | Food & Beverage

The 3M Tecra Listeria VIA provides operation flexibility, further validating the diverse solutions 3M Food Safety is bringing to the marketplace more...

BIOTECON Diagnostics Successfully Completes MicroVal Certification

30 Oct 2012 | Food & Beverage

foodproof® Enterobacteriaceae plus E. sakazakii Detection Kits, foodproof® Salmonella Detection Kits, Reagent D and foodproof® StarPrep One Kit certified by Lloyd's Register Nederland B.V. more...

GenMark Diagnostics Receives FDA Clearance for RVP Test

23 Oct 2012 | ClinicalOther

eSensor® Respiratory Viral Panel enables concurrent detection of clinically relevant viral strains, improves co-infection detection, distinguishes Rhinovirus from Enteroviruses and identifies Adenovirus species C. more...

Testing Peanut Butter for Salmonella using the Rapid LT Real-Time PCR

23 Oct 2012 | Food & BeverageWaterOther

Comparative study confirms that Microbiology International R.A.P.I.D. LT test protocol as sensitive as the USDA/FSIS MLG and FDA/BAM methods when testing batches of peanut butter for Salmonella. more...

RCS® Microbial Air Sampling Systems for Ambient Air Monitoring

22 Oct 2012 | Pharmaceutical

Merck Millipore's RCS®High Flow Touch is a complete, fully compliant (ISO 14698-1) system consisting of instrument and agar strips, for monitoring of ambient air and compressed gases. The instrument is equipped with a high-resolution color touchscreen for convenient and fast handling and the more...

Enjoy Pipetting with New Biohit Picus Electronic Pipette

22 Oct 2012 | ClinicalOther

The Picus from Alpha Laboratories enables optimal working posture and maximum comfort with an ergonomic design that protects from RSI and makes pipetting performance more reliable. more...

EMSL Analytical Service Identifies Lyme Disease in Environment

22 Oct 2012 | Food & BeverageOtherPharmaceutical

Using a qPCR assay, EMSL can provide fast results on environmental samples for Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. more...

Stomacher Laboratory Blender Cleaning Video Guide Now Available

22 Oct 2012 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

Seward introduce a 'helpful clips' video series, a collection of 'how to' videos includes instruction on the easy opening of Seward Micro Bags, and a guide to cleaning Seward's Stomacher 400 laboratory blender. more...

New Easy-Card H.pylori Antigen Test

22 Oct 2012 | Clinical

From Alpha Laboratories, Easy-Card's lateral flow test provides rapid, sensitive, specific and cost effective results in stool samples. more...

BIOMIC® V3 Microbiology Reads Liofilchem® SensiQuattro Candida EU Panel

22 Oct 2012 | ClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinary

Digital imaging technology automates the reading, interpretation, and reporting of all Liofilchem microbiology products including MIC Test Strips, ID and AST Systems, antibiotic disks, and chromogenic agar. more...

AOAC-RI for Roka Salmonella Detection in 10 Additional Food Matrices

16 Oct 2012 | Food & Beverage

Matrix extension brings the total number to 22 food and 3 environmental validated matrices for the Atlas System assay, an incredibly easy-to-use, powerful platform for Salmonella detection. more...

G-Sphere® Molecular Standards Provides Flexible QC for Labs

15 Oct 2012 | ClinicalOther

Synthetic genes from Phthisis Diagnostics (now part of Microbiologics) can provide positive controls for virtually any organism, available for custom orders and Cryptosporidium, Giardia, Entamoeba, Plasmodium, and Microsporidia assays. more...

Compounding Pharmacy Benefits from Real Time Microbial Air Monitoring

15 Oct 2012 | OtherPharmaceutical

Azbil BioVigilant's IMD-A system for instantaneous microbial detection addresses environmental monitoring needs in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, and environmental applications. more...

Enteric Protozoa: DNA Reference Materials for Multiplex RT-PCR

15 Oct 2012 | ClinicalOther

The ATCC Enteric Protozoa DNA Panel provides you with preparations containing enough DNA for multiple PCR reactions - develop, test, and refine your molecular-based assays with ATCC reference materials. more...

How to Improve Pipetting between Different Labware Formats

15 Oct 2012 | Food & BeverageOtherPharmaceutical

A white paper is available describing how the VOYAGER accelerates pipetting tasks where samples need reformatting and at the same time increases the precision, reliability and comfort of the procedure. more...

Lab M for Isolation and Culture of Salmonellae

09 Oct 2012 | Food & BeverageWaterClinical

Lab M provides a comprehensive and proven range of media for the isolation and culture of Salmonellae from both foods and animal feed, and offers a choice of methodologies. more...

Azbil BioVigilant to Distribute BioTrends Data Management Software

08 Oct 2012 | WaterPharmaceutical

Developed in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry BioTrends software streamlines management of quality assurance environmental monitoring (EM) processes and the monitoring and trending of all EM data points. more...

Electric Capper Works With All Sample Storage Tube and Rack Combinations

08 Oct 2012 | ClinicalOther

Operating as a stand-alone benchtop unit the compact Univo Electric Capper is able to uniformly cap a complete rack of 96 sample storage tubes in only 4-9 seconds more...

Extended Length Pipette Tips Improve Labware Access

08 Oct 2012 | Clinical

INTEGRA has introduced a new extended length GripTip pipette tip available in non-sterile, sterile, filter and GREEN CHOICE configurations. more...

Accelerate your Leishmania Detection Assay Development

08 Oct 2012 | ClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

Whether you´re developing a real-time PCR or PCR-ELISA assay to detect Leishmania , the ATCC® Leishmania DNA Panel (ATCC® MP-13™) is the right tool for you to rapidly evaluate both the Limits of Detection (LOD) and sensitivity of your tests. The ATCC Leishmania DNA Panel consists of more...

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