Microbiology News: Dec 2015

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Microbiology News: Dec 2015

Take Control of Your Endotoxin Testing with the New Endosafe® nexgen-PTS™

18 Dec 2015 | OtherPharmaceutical

Foster Jordan, Corporate Sr. Vice-President at Charles River Microbial Solutions discusses how the new Endosafe® nexgen-PTS™ can reduce endotoxin test compliance errors. more...

BAX® System X5 PCR Assay for L. monocytogenes Now AOAC PTM

18 Dec 2015 | Food & Beverage

BAX® System X5 food pathogen PCR based assays now AOAC PTM status are Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes with Listeria sp. and E.coli O157 in progress. more...

Trial Shows Simple, On-Site, Same Shift Hygiene Results

18 Dec 2015 | Food & BeverageOtherCosmetic/Personal Care

MicroSnap Total swab sampling devices and EnSURE hand held luminometer

The Hygiena EnSURE system with both MicroSnap and UltraSnap measures two key components of hygiene on-site with same shift results. more...

Starter Pack Helps Labs Move to 2D Coded Sample Storage

18 Dec 2015 | ClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

2D barcoded sample storage system starter pack contains everything for secure, RNase/DNase-free, sample storage. more...

bioMérieux and Illumina Launch NGS Service for Epidemiology

15 Dec 2015 | Clinical

bioMérieux and Illumina have launched bioMérieux EpiSeq™, an innovative next-generation sequencing (NGS) service dedicated to the epidemiological monitoring and control of healthcare-associated infections. The bioMérieux EpiSeq™ service is the first result of the collaboration agreement more...

QIAGEN’s QuantiFERON-TB Test Chosen for Use in NHS Tender

15 Dec 2015 | Clinical

The NHS tender results showed six QIAGEN customers who offer the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus test were chosen for various regions across the country which amounted to over 80% of the testing volume. more...

CE Marked Influenza-Respiratory Virus Panel for Idylla™ platform

15 Dec 2015 | Clinical

Idylla™ Respiratory IFV-RSV Panel has been developed by Janssen Diagnostics and is intended for the detection of various strains of Influenza Virus and Respiratory Syncytial Virus. more...

3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Aerobic Count Plate Awarded AOAC OMA

15 Dec 2015 | Food & BeverageOther

The sample ready Petrifilm Rapid Aerobic Count Plate detects and accurately counts aerobic bacteria in just 24 hours for most food matrices and environmental samples. more...

AOAC Approval for Neogen's ANSR^® for E. coli O157:H7

15 Dec 2015 | Food & Beverage

With the validation of ANSR for E. coli O157:H7, Neogen also announced a new program for its ANSR rapid pathogen detection system. The program is a limited-time, risk-free 30-day trial for an on-site evaluation. more...

BAX® System X5 Certified by AOAC-RI for Salmonella Detection

15 Dec 2015 | Food & Beverage

Providing next day Salmonella results on most sample types, the BAX® System X5 has a smaller lightweight construction to provide greater testing flexibility. more...

Cherwell Adds Microbiology Product Specialist to Customer Support Team

15 Dec 2015 | PharmaceuticalCosmetic/Personal Care

Andrew Ramage has been appointed as Microbiology Product Specialist to enhance Cherwell's customer support team. more...

Large Composite Sample Homogenization with the MAXICATOR 3500ml

15 Dec 2015 | Food & BeverageOther

Composite sample large volume masticator

A new large volume homogeniser, the MASTICATOR 3500 is now available from IUL, ideally suited for preparation of composite 375g Salmonella and 125g Listeria samples. more...

Advances in Bioburden Testing

15 Dec 2015 | Food & BeverageOtherPharmaceutical

The Merck EZ-Fluo™ rapid detection system provides the latest in the detection of viable and culturable microorganisms using fluorescence-based technology. more...

Xpert Flu+RSV Xpress is First PCR Panel Test to Achieve CLIA Waiver

15 Dec 2015 | Clinical

Delivering reference laboratory test performance with a point of care test. more...

There's an Agar Shortage!

08 Dec 2015 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Supplies of pure agar are difficult to come by with Thermo Fisher and Millipore Sigma having stoped selling pure bacteriological agar as a stand alone item. more...

Cherwell Highlights New Cleanroom Decontamination System at Pharmig

08 Dec 2015 | OtherPharmaceutical

Video demonstrates main advantages of Dry Fog 2 cleanroom decontamination system, a stainless steel, portable system for rapid decontamination within small rooms and whole suites. more...

Scaling Up Screening in 96- and 384-Well Microplates

08 Dec 2015 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

To automate pipetting into 96 and 384 well microplates, the VIAFLO II electronic pipette together with a VIAFLO ASSIST can help reduce liquid handling errors and increase assay throughput. more...

Mérieux NutriSciences Now Offers MALDI-TOF Based Identification Service

08 Dec 2015 | Food & BeveragePharmaceuticalCosmetic/Personal Care

MALDI-TOF based identification service for microbial isolates in food and pharmaceutical/biotech industries is now available from Mérieux NutriSciences. more...

New Website for Beckman Coulter Diagnostics

07 Dec 2015 | Clinical

Beckman Coulter's new diagnostics website is designed around the DxN VERIS Molecular Diagnostics System a true single-sample random access instrument for HIV, HCV, HBV and CMV with more assays in development. more...

Next Generation Molecular Detection Assay for Listeria Gains AOAC PTM

07 Dec 2015 | Food & BeverageOther

3M Molecular Detection of Salmonella and Listeria AOAC PTM

The 3M™ Molecular Detection System platform now has three second generation assays for food pathogens with AOAC PTM certification Listeria, L.mono and Salmonella. more...

Key Considerations When Purchasing an Active Air Sampler

01 Dec 2015 | Food & BeverageOtherPharmaceuticalCosmetic/Personal Care

Cherwell publishes case study discussing Portsmouth Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Units' key considerations for choosing which active air sampler to use for their Environmental Monitoring programme. more...

Charm Sciences Opens New Technology Development Centre

01 Dec 2015 | Food & BeverageOther

Charm Sciences has opened a new 60,000 square foot building to house expanded research and development, high tech manufacturing capabilities, and a food safety training and conference center. Located on Riverside Drive, Andover Mass., ½ mile from Charm headquarters in Lawrence, the new facility more...

Campylobacter in Chicken Survey Shows Lower Levels

01 Dec 2015 | Food & BeverageOther

Results of the FSA survey on campylobacter show a decrease in incidence on fresh, retail chickens compared to same period last year. more...

Fijifilm Pyrostar testing critical water used in the reprocessing of medical devices

SGL Plates and Culture Media for Pharmaceutical Microbiology

QC Standards Controls and Proficiency Testing Schemes

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