bioMérieux has signed an exclusive global sales representative agreement with Compliance Software Solutions Corporation (CSSC) to market environmental monitoring software for the pharmaceutical industry.

Through the agreement, bioMérieux will market CSSC’s MIMS™ software with its VITEK® 2 Compact microbial identification system. The MIMS software package offers a validated method of assessing and documenting facility operations, collecting results from microbial and particulate tests, as well as analyzing and trending the data. This ensures environmental control systems are operating as intended and provides valuable insight into their effectiveness.

MIMS also provides total traceability and an automatic alert system. With the software installation, each customer’s database will be configured to interface with the VITEK® 2 Compact.

"The combination of CSSC’s MIMS technology and bioMérieux’s VITEK ® 2 Compact provides a complete data management solution for our customers in the pharmaceutical industry," said Alexandre Mérieux, Corporate Vice President, Industrial Microbiology. "Environmental testing is critical to the production of safe, high quality pharmaceuticals and we are pleased to partner with an industry leader such as CSSC."

"bioMérieux’s expertise in the microbiology laboratory and success with the VITEK® 2 Compact, along with its dynamic sales organization, affords us with an unparalleled channel of distribution for the MIMS application," said George M. Levinson, President of CSSC. "Our comprehensive software system complements bioMérieux’s position as a global market leader and total solution provider for the pharmaceutical industry."