Microbiology News: May 2014

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Microbiology News: May 2014

3M Molecular Detection Assay Salmonella Secures Extended Validations

30 May 2014 | Food & BeverageOther

3M Food Safety has announced that its 3M™ Molecular Detection Assay Salmonella has received an extension of the current NF VALIDATION certificate from AFNOR Certification. more...

Britains Best Innovative Autoclave Manufacturer

29 May 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Priorclave autoclave video shows examples from a comprehensive range of standard laboratory steam sterilisers that include benchtop autoclaves, front loading autoclaves, the unique RSC front loading laboratory autoclaves and many more... more...

Reliable, Noise-Free Vacuum for Cell Culture Applications

27 May 2014 | Other

INTEGRA has published a new video testimonial* in which researchers at the Institute for Clinical Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) describe the benefits of using the VACUSAFE Laboratory Aspiration System. more...

How Food Microbiology Testing Varies Around the World

27 May 2014 | Food & Beverage

Market research report from Strategic Consulting on food microbiology globally, found that where food safety samples are collected is one of the major areas of difference around the world, and food plants in Asia differ most from RoW. more...

UNC Finds Cost of MALDI-TOF System is Offset in 3 Years

27 May 2014 | Clinical

Researchers at UNC Health Care have found that using MALDI-TOF based systems for identifying bacteria and fungi in patient specimens led to a 92% cost reduction in the reagents, instrument cost offset is less than three years. more...

Acuitas™ MDRO Identifies Critical Antibiotic Resistant Genes

27 May 2014 | Clinical

A more accurate genomic approach to the detection of highly transmissible genes as opposed to traditional bacterial culture, the OpGen Acuitas™ MDRO Gene Test directly detects as many as seven genes from one patient sample. more...

First BD Kiestra™ TLA Fully Automated Microbiology Lab System in Canada

27 May 2014 | Clinical

The first Canadian installation of BD's Kiestra™ Total Lab Automation system for automating inoculation and incubation of clinical microbiology specimens will be at Island Health’s Royal Jubilee Hospital. more...

Easy Bioburden and Microbial Detection in Beverages

26 May 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterOther

Microbiological analysis of water, beverages and other filterable samples can be made easier with the EZ-product range from Merck Millipore - time to result is reduced and workflow is improved. more...

Meat Speciation Samples Provided by Seward Stomacher®

26 May 2014 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

Stomacher® plays key role in providing contamination free antigen samples for USDA protocols for meat speciation ELISA tests on cooked and uncooked meats. more...

DNAble Assay for Salmonella in Foods Gets AOAC PTM

26 May 2014 | Food & Beverage

With a one-step enrichment and DNAble's proprietary isothermal technology eliminating the thermocycling step of traditional PCR systems, this Salmonella Detection Assay gives significant cost and time savings. more...

Economical Immersion Circulator for Basic Liquid Heating

20 May 2014 | Other

A new, highly economical immersion circulator that’s ideal for basic liquid heating applications is now available from PolyScience. more...

Micronic Marks Pearl Milestone

20 May 2014 | ClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

The new Micronic 2014 catalogue contains all you need to know about sample storage, handling and management. more...

Nofima Start Work at Pathogen Pilot Plant

20 May 2014 | Food & Beverage

The new pathogen pilot plant research facility will contribute to increased knowledge about dangerous food-borne bacteria such as Listeria monocytogenes and pathogenic E. coli in a realistic production environment in a Biosafety level 3 facility. more...

3M™ Petrifilm™ Salmonella Express System is Adopted as AOAC-OMA

20 May 2014 | Food & BeverageOther

Fast Salmonella detection with 3M Salmonella Express, validated as a First Action OMA for detection of Salmonella in raw ground beef, chicken nuggets, raw ground chicken, raw ground pork, egg, shrimp, spinach, dry pet food and stainless steel. more...

WASPLab Integrates with Microscopy Slide Scanning System

20 May 2014 | ClinicalOther

WASPLab™ users can now show on a single screen, microscopy images of Gram slides taken by the Zeiss microscope, images of culture plates, LIS information and results from other instruments. more...

Automatized System for Bacterial Enumeration

20 May 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Plate&Count System® is a fully automatized system working with an automatic Spiral plater and an automatic colony counter. more...

Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing Four Times Faster

15 May 2014 | ClinicalOther

Using the ProtoCOL 3 and SynStats software in combination is helping microbiologists at this contract testing laboratory to significantly increase their throughput when determining the efficacy of new antibiotics. more...

Real-time PCR Assay for HSV 1+2 and VZV gets FDA Clearance

15 May 2014 | Clinical

Lyra™ Direct real-time PCR test detects and differentiates herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2 (HSV 1+2) and varicella-zoster virus (VZV) nucleic acids isolated and purified from swab specimens. more...

Meet rapidmicrobiology.com at ASM 2016

13 May 2014 | ClinicalOther

We are attending this year's American Society of Microbiology General Meeting in Boston, MA on 17th to 20th May, please call by booth #1147 to meet up and have a chat! more...

CONTAM SWAB for Microbial Testing of Surfaces

13 May 2014 | Food & BeverageOther

Available for total counts, E.coli and coliforms, Listeria and Salmonella sp, the surface to be tested is swabbed and the swab inserted into the media containing tube and incubated. Results are indicated by colour change. more...

Bruker Introduces Beta-lactamase Testing Module

12 May 2014 | Clinical

The MBT STAR-BL (Beta Lactamase) module is part of the new MBT STAR assay family for Selective Testing of Antibiotic Resistance, and enables patented functional beta-lactamase testing for selected antibiotics. more...

Eurofins Acquires ViraCor-IBT Laboratories

12 May 2014 | Clinical

Eurofins purchase of ViraCor-IBT gives them a strong presence in the specialty clinical testing services for infectious disease, immunology, allergy, HLA and serology serving hospitals, clinicians and pharmaceutical companies. more...

INTEGRA VIAFLO ASSIST Wins Design Award

12 May 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinary

INTEGRA received the Red Dot Design Award for the innovative design and function of its VIAFLO ASSIST pipetting assistant that reduces the need for handheld pipetting relieving lab personnel from activities that may cause repetitive stress injuries. more...

BD MAX™ Enteric Bacterial Panel Receives FDA Clearance

12 May 2014 | Food & BeverageClinical

The BD MAX Enteric Bacterial Panel is designed to detect bacterial pathogens in line with widely recommended clinical algorithms for testing. These algorithms utilize patient history and clinical presentation in selecting diagnostic tests. more...

AFNOR Cert for Thermo's SureTect Salmonella Species PCR Assay

08 May 2014 | Food & Beverage

SureTect Salmonella species PCR Assay has proven to be comparable to the reference method ISO 6579:2002, AFNOR certified - fast, easy to use with common protocols for different pathogen assays. more...

Maintain an Outstanding Microbiological Quality Control Program

08 May 2014 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Repeated subculturing of microbiological quality control (QC) organisms can be detrimental. Each passage carries the potential for contamination, drift, and mutation, taking your culture farther and farther from the parental genotype and phenotype. more...