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Plating Technique Best Practices for Growth Promotion Testing

19 May 2022 | Pharmaceutical

When performing Growth Promotion Testing on new batches of media, one of three plating techniques can be used: Spread Plate, Pour Plate, or Membrane Filtration. Microbiologics shares their Top 5 Best Practices for each of these plating methods. more...

Thermo Scientific™ Culti-Loops™ Quality Control Organisms

19 May 2022 | Food & BeveragePharmaceutical

CultiLoops ready to use quality control organisms

Culti-Loops™ are ready-to-use, disposable bacteriological loops containing stabilized, viable microorganisms in a unique gel matrix. Ensure consistent microbiological testing for pharmaceutical and food products with strict quality control materials. more...

Importance of Efficient Bacterial Detection Within the Food Production Chain: How to Improve Safety

19 May 2022 | Food & Beverage

Visual Assessment of Food Line Cleanliness

The BactiScan™ is a handheld, quick and easy-to-use bacterial detection scanner can highlight where bacteria or biofilm are on your processing line prior to ATP swab testing to ensure cleanliness and safety in your plant and compliance with legislative regulations and guidelines. more...

QC Standards, Controls and Proficiency Testing Schemes - a rapidmicrobiology Special Focus

17 May 2022 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalPharmaceutical

Medical Wire and Equipment Swabs are CLSI-M40-A2 compliant and CE marked

How does a microbiology lab know its results are accurate and precise? By constant vigilence via the use of QC standards, controls and taking part in proficiency testing programmes. Browse our special focus to discover what products are available to ensure your lab gets it right every time! more...

Quality Control Thought Leadership in the Microbiology World

16 May 2022 | Pharmaceutical

Industry leaders in quality control microbiology join us every year at the QC Micro Summit in Charleston, SC. In this review of the 2022 conference, find out how the experts tackle the latest microbiology trends and challenges from regulatory changes to rapid microbial methods. more...

MICA Legionella Certified by AOAC

16 May 2022 | Water

Diamidex is proud to announce that its solution to detect Legionella pneumophila in 48 hours and in CFU is now Performance Tested Methods^SM (PTM) AOAC certified. The certification demonstrates that MICA Legionella gives “equivalent or better results than ISO 11731:2017” in only 48 hours! more...

Save Time and Costs - Use Your Molecular Systems for Detection of Enteric Pathogens

12 May 2022 | Clinical

Culture techniques can take days before results are derived, and sometimes can delay detection if the sample in the stool container wasn’t preserved correctly. The Fecal Transwab® can change that! It can help provide results faster, at a lower cost, and in a more efficient manner more...

The Growth Promotion Test - How to Choose and Validate Your EM Culture Media Supplier

12 May 2022 | Pharmaceutical

QC Media for Environmental Monitoring in Cleanrooms

Peter Penn, Sales Director at NaughtonPenn Consultants discusses products that are designed to help laboratories ensure they achieve the correct CFU of reference organisms required to carry out the various testing procedures that they perform, whether it be the GPT or other tests. more...

Infectious Disease Research: Reproducible Results Require Proper Pipetting - Podcast

11 May 2022 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalLaboratory EquipmentPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal CareMicrobiome

Learn to Use Pipette Correctly at Sartorius Pipette Academy

In this podcast episode, our guests from Sartorius give advice on correct pipetting techniques that will avoid cell damage and reproducibility errors. more...

CompactDry^™ “Nissui” LM – Easy Dry Medium for Listeria monocytogenes

11 May 2022 | Food & Beverage

CompactDry™ “Nissui” LM is a small and ready-to-use medium plate developed for detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes. It has gained MicroVal certification for a broad range of foods and environmental samples. more...

VitaPCR™ - Small Portable SARS-CoV-2 PCR Instrument Demonstrated at ECCMID

11 May 2022 | Clinical

Portable PCR instrument for airports cruise ships etc

Credo’s VitaPCR™ is a small portable benchtop instrument that can return a SARS-CoV-2 PCR result in 20 minutes. Watch Carrie Chen, Sales Specialist for Credo Diagnostics as she demonstrates how easy it is to use, making it ideal for airports and cruise ships etc. more...

Ultra-fast Lateral-flow Antigen Test for COVID-19 Showcased at ECCMID

11 May 2022 | Clinical

Dr. Nicholas Durand, Abionic's CEO and Founder, was at ECCMID 2022 showcasing the abioSCOPE® platform; a POCT immunoassay reader heralded as the fastest in the world with resuts in 2 minutes. more...

BIOBALL^®: Where Accuracy, Precision, Efficiency, and Consistency Matters the Most

10 May 2022 | WaterOtherPharmaceuticalCosmetic/Personal Care

BIOBALL®: 20 years of delivering confidence for your microbiological quality control. This small freeze dried water-soluble certified reference material provides time and labour-intensive cost savings, improving overall lab efficiency and productivity. more...

Data Integrity Problems in Using Spreadsheets for Your Environmental Monitoring

10 May 2022 | Pharmaceutical

There are some major drawbacks to the use of spreadsheets for your environmental monitoring, which could lead to a lack of trust in your data. more...

CultiControl Freeze-Dried Pellets

10 May 2022 | Pharmaceutical

Learn more about ATCC^® and NCTC^® derived CultiControl microorganisms. more...

Make the Most of Your cDNA Synthesis With the New Tips & Tricks Series From PCR Biosystems

09 May 2022 | Clinical

A new Tips & Tricks series from PCR Biosystems. Learn everything you need to know for perfect cDNA synthesis. Part of a continuing series to help optimise and troubleshoot different PCR applications. more...

Why the Food Industry Should Welcome a New Age of Rapid Screening.

09 May 2022 | Food & Beverage

Gloved hands holding a NEMIS Listeria N Light swab

The COVID19 pandemic has taught us the importance of testing early and often. With food product recalls in Europe up 13% in 2020, we learn how the use of NEMIS Technologies N-Light^TM Listeria monocytogenes can enable testing early and often, offering tremendous opportunities for the food industry. more...

Evaluate the Entire Analytical Process of the BCID2 Panel Assay for Sepsis

06 May 2022 | Clinical

Now available in the UK from Alpha Laboratories, MDx-Chex evaluates the entire analytical process of the assay, including cell lysis, DNA extraction, purification and removal of PCR inhibitors, as well as qPCR amplification, detection, and analysis. more...

Provider of Proficiency Testing Programs for Food and Environmental Testing

06 May 2022 | Food & BeverageWater

Verify the accuracy and reliability of your laboratory's detection and enumeration competancy with BIPEA Proficiency Testing Schemes, which offer a wide range of analytes in real food matrices - including Salmonella, Listeria, Staphylococcal toxins and food borne viruses, more...

High Performance Testing for Low pH Beverages

06 May 2022 | Food & Beverage

Acidic, complex matrices can impact the reliability of microbiological testing, leading to potential inaccuracy, repeat testing, and product release delays. The Innovate System RapiScreen™ Beverage Kit overcomes these challenges with optimized buffering capacity for rapid, accurate results. more...

Improved Viral RNA Extraction from Nasal and Throat Swab samples

05 May 2022 | Clinical

Employing a novel dual frit extraction design the single use Chromatrap® Homogeniser Spin Column reduces lysate viscosity and captures insoluble debris by centrifugation. The homogenised lysate sample is then ready for RNA extraction. more...

Don’t Let Dead Cell/Free DNA Haunt You!

04 May 2022 | Food & Beverage

iQ-Check Free DNA Removal Solution (FDRS) from Bio-Rad Laboratories is an enzymatic solution to remove free DNA from food and environmental samples prior to PCR analysis. more...

Practical Advice on New EU GMP Annex 1 Requirements For Continuous Environmental Monitoring

03 May 2022 | Pharmaceutical

Do you need help with your contamination control strategy? Experts from Cherwell Laboratories will attend the Cleanroom Technology Conference 2022 and can help you ensure continued compliance in view of the hotly anticipated Annex 1 revisions. more...

Automation and LIMs Integration Improve QC Micro Data Integrity

29 Apr 2022 | Pharmaceutical

The highest levels of data integrity are increasingly essential to patient safety, regulatory compliance, and commercial success. Central to this effort is the reliable integration of key automated workflows and instrumentation with laboratory information management systems (LIMS). more...

Clinical Data Presented at ECCMID 2022

29 Apr 2022 | Clinical

Results from five studies consistently demonstrated the excellent performance of the APAS Independence artificial intelligence algorithms to interpret microbial growth for a variety of clinical applications. more...

Culture As Nature Intended

28 Apr 2022 | Pharmaceutical

A Baker gas-controlled and economical hypoxia cell culture chamber

Designed for in vitro cell culture experiments PhO₂ Box is an easy-to-use and economical Physoxia/Hypoxia system packed with new, innovative features that allow you to study even the most complex cell interactions under perfect physiological oxygen conditions. more...

Win 1 of 10 INTEGRA VOYAGER Pipette Kits!

28 Apr 2022 | Pharmaceutical

To enter the competition and be in with a chance of winning one of the 10 VOYAGER pipette kits, all you need to do is complete INTEGRA’s questionnaire about your pipetting experience. more...

Condalab, Your ISO 11133 Partner for Your QC Procedures

28 Apr 2022 | Food & BeveragePharmaceutical

ISO 11133 is key to have reliable results of your microbiological analysis. At Condalab, all of our culture media quality assurance is tested and validated according to this standard to make your own QC procedures easier. more...

Creative Diagnostics Introduces New Nipah Virus Antigens and Antibodies

28 Apr 2022 | Pharmaceutical

Creative Diagnostics recently launches a series of NiV recombinant antigen and antibody pairs. more...

Rapid, Reliable Test for Salmonella in Low-Moisture Foods and Ingredients

28 Apr 2022 | Food & Beverage

The Thermo Scientific™ SureTect™ Salmonella Species PCR Assay is a rapid and efficient solution for testing foods, the environment, and large portions of low-moisture foods of up to 375 g validated according to ISO 16140-2 and AOAC-OMA requirements. more...

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