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Bio-Rad Wins USDA Contract for its Pathogen Detection Testing Products 

14 Nov 2018 | F&B

iQ-Check real-time PCR pathogen detection
The United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS) select Bio-Rad Laboratories iQ-Check real-time PCR pathogen detection test kits and the iQ-Check Prep Automation System. more...

rapidmicrobiology Media Kit 2019 Now Available

13 Nov 2018 | F&BWCOPVCC

rapidmicrobiology Media Kit 2019
Of interest to anyone involved in marketing microbiology products to routine test labs, make sure your brand and products are included on the rapidmicrobiology website and newsletter in 2019. Request your media kit 2019 here. more...

INTEGRA named ‘2018 Global Laboratory Pipetting Company of the Year’

13 Nov 2018 | F&BWCPCC

INTEGRA - Award Winning Pipettes
Frost & Sullivan’s conducted extensive research using key benchmarking criteria across two main areas – visionary impact and performance, and customer impact – to compare companies in the industry, and found that INTEGRA surpassed the competition. more...

OpGen Collaborates With QIAGEN to Commercialize Rapid Diagnostic for AMR

13 Nov 2018 | C

AMR Gene Panel family of rapid diagnostics tests has been designed to detect and identify multidrugresistant bacterial pathogens in urine and bacterial isolates in approximately two hours. more...

Panther Fusion® Bordetella Assay Receives CE Mark in Europe

13 Nov 2018 | C

Panther Fusion® Bordetella assay has received CE mark in Europe the assay accurately detects and differentiates Bordetella pertussis and parapertussis, ensuring the appropriate antibiotic treatmentis selected. more...

FDA-Cleared Liofilchem MTS™ (MIC Test Strip) Penicillin G (P)

13 Nov 2018 | CP

Petri Dish
Liofilchem has received clearance from the FDA to market in the United States the MTS™ (MIC Test Strip) Penicillin G more...

NEW BagFilter Pipet & Roll - Filter Bag with Easy Pipet Access & Built-in Closure

12 Nov 2018 | F&B

Blender Bags with Reclosable Sticker
INTERSCIENCE’s Pipet & Roll filter bag is a great solution for handling samples for food pathogen testing, with built-in closure and easy pipette access via a reclosable sticker. more...

FDA Approves First Drug Using the Recombinant Factor C Assay for Endotoxin Testing

09 Nov 2018 | P

Animal free alternative to endotoxin testing
The recombinant Factor C (rFC) Assay has been used for endotoxin testing of Eli Lilly’s Emgality™ (galcanezumab), this is the first drug approved by the FDA to have been released using this method instead of traditional Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) - based methods. more...

Monitoring the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

09 Nov 2018 | CP

NGS Detection of Antibiotic Resistance
Since time is of the essence with AMR, next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are increasingly being used to predict antibiotic resistance of bacteria. Labs such as Macrogen Corp are using NGS to process and decode the entire human genome in as little as 24 hours. more...

Measuring Contamination Quickly and Easily

08 Nov 2018 | F&B

Hygiena solutions for Surface Monitoring
Hygiena’s ATP-based surface monitoring is part of its advanced technologies and design. The company also provides PCR-based pathogen detection, DNA fingerprint molecular characterization, allergen tests, environmental collection devices, and more.  more...

MWE’s NRS II Transwab® Compliant with ISO 18593:2018

08 Nov 2018 | F&BCP

MWE Transport Swabs
MWE’s NRS II Transwab® and Polywipe™ products can already be used in surface monitoring programmes based on the new ISO 18593:2018. Diluents and neutralisers are fully compliant. more...

Solus One Next Day Results from Environmental Samples

08 Nov 2018 | F&B

Solus One
Introducing Solus One for the next day detection of Listeria spp. from environmental surfaces and Salmonella in food and environmental surfaces. Solus One assays provide a next day negative or a presumptive positive result from a single enrichment step. more...

Liofilchem’s Solutions for the Environmental Monitoring of Surfaces

08 Nov 2018 | F&BP

TSA
Liofilchem produces ready-to-use culture media in Contact Plate and Contact Slide formats, a range of swabs for microbial detection and transportation including Contam Swab, ESC (Easy Surface Checking) Swab and Clean Test, a rapid chemical test. more...

Early Detection of Salmonella spp. with Pall® GeneDisc® Technology

08 Nov 2018 | F&B

Pall GeneDisc
Pall® GeneDisc® technology provides  maximum flexibility for testing strategies to rapidly assess contamination level of their working environment, raw material, in-process samples and final products with AOAC and NF VALIDATION certified methods more...

Detection of Genetically Modified Salmon in Food and Feed

07 Nov 2018 | F&B

GMO Salmon Detection Kit
Eurofins GeneScan Technologies’ innovative “GMOIdent Accelerated Growth Salmon” kit allows the detection of gene modified salmon in food and feed. more...

Compare Baker Ruskinn Bugbox to Anaerobic Jars - True Cost Calculator!

06 Nov 2018 | F&BWCOPV

Baker Ruskinn Bugbox anaerobic & microaerophilic workstations
This calculator works out the true costs in materials and labor for Anaerobic or Microaerophilic Jars/Packs and compares it to the costs of buying and running a Baker Ruskinn incubated anaerobic or microaerophilic workstation. Compare today! more...

Clear Labs Raises Funding for Routine NGS in Food Production

06 Nov 2018 | F&B

The Clear Safety platform is comprised of the most advanced NGS technology, robust bioinformatics, and the world’s largest molecular database. In addition to Clear Safety, Clear Labs platform supports testing for authenticity, GMO, and microbiome testing. more...

Reaching a New Benchmark in Surface Monitoring

05 Nov 2018 | P

ICR Contact Plates
With the new TSA ICR contact plates with LTHThio, we’ve got you covered for all  your surface and personnel monitoring challenges. This media offers excellent growth properties for aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms even in the presence of sanitizer residues. more...

Q Laboratories Implement Solus One Listeria for Environmental Samples

05 Nov 2018 | F&B

Solus One Listeria Testing
Q laboratories has chosen to implement Solus One Listeria testing protocol into their microbiology service offerings. Solus One Listeria is a highly efficient assay for next day detection of Listeria spp. in environmental samples. more...

Reduce Your Costs for Biological Sample Transport

05 Nov 2018 | C

How do you package your send-away pathology samples?  The Transport of Dangerous Goods Regulations require patient specimens and other biological samples to be transported according to UN3373 Biological Substance Category B, P650 Packaging Instruction.  more...

Win an INTEGRA VOYAGER Adjustable Tip Spacing Pipette

05 Nov 2018 | F&BCOPV

Win an INTEGRA VOYAGER Adjustable Tip Spacing Pipette
Would you also like to reformat samples faster and more efficiently? Enter the INTEGRA prize draw for the chance to win a VOYAGER pipette with adjustable tip spacing and process your samples up to 12 times faster! more...

Peel Plate® EB Microbial Test for Use in Poultry Processing Industry

05 Nov 2018 | F&B

Test for Enteros in poultry processing facilities using Charm Sciences' Peel Plate® EB Microbial Test - can be done onsite with fast, clear, easily understood results. Validated for use with either neutralizing buffered peptone water (nBPW) or buffered peptone water.  more...

South Africa’s Listeria Outbreak Declared Over – What Lessons did we Learn?

05 Nov 2018 | F&B

The 2017 outbreak of Listeriosis in South Africa was the worst ever recorded. more...

Identify OXA-48-like, OXA-163, KPC, NDM and VIM Carbapenemases from Cultures

05 Nov 2018 | C

Immunoassay detection of 5 antibiotic resistant phenotypes
Identifiy OXA-48-like, OXA-163, KPC, NDM and VIM carbapenemase phenotypes from cultures, with results in 15 minutes with immunoassay cassettes more sensitive than PCR. more...

Discover the One-stop Guide for Food Safety Testing

02 Nov 2018 | F&B

Reference Guide Testing for Indicator Organisms and Food Pathogens
Download Bio-Rad's comprehensive guide to methods for food quality indicators and food pathogens, includes summary table of validations obtained for alternative methods - iQ-Check Real-Time PCR and RAPID’Chromogenic media. more...

SGL Aircheck® & Surfacecheck® High Quality Culture Media for Environmental Monitoring

01 Nov 2018 | P

High Quality Culture Media
Designed especially for microbial monitoring of cleanrooms, isolators and associated controlled environments, TSA and SDA Aircheck® and Surfacecheck® plates from SGL are ideal for use in passive/active air sampling and other environmental monitoring procedures. more...

CloudLIMS Integrates with Confident Cannabis to Drive Efficiency & Compliance for Cannabis Labs

31 Oct 2018 | F&BWCP

CloudLIMS and Confident Cannabis come together to offer a robust integrated LIMS for cannabis testing labs to drive compliance, efficiency and performance. more...

Importance of Pathogen Detection and Sepsis Markers

29 Oct 2018 | C

Watch recordings of sessions held recently at the 2nd World Sepsis Congress. more...

Siemens Healthineers Builds New In Vitro Diagnostics Facility in China

29 Oct 2018 | C

Simens Healthineers existing manufacturing operations in Shanghai, China will be expanded to include a new in vitro diagnostics facility.  more...

GenePOC® CDiff Test Approved by Health Canada

29 Oct 2018 | C

GenePOC announces the Health Canada approval and launch of its molecular diagnostic test for the detection of Clostridium difficile in Canada  more...

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