Microbiology News : Jul 2017

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Microbiology News : Jul 2017

Thermal Printer Gives Better Clarity on Autoclave Sterilisation Cycle

31 Jul 2017 | ClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

thermal printer on Priorclave autoclave range

The new thermal printer will be rolled out across the entire Priorclave range of laboratory autoclaves such as benchtop, top loading and all front loading designs including those with cylindrical and rectangular chambers, double-door models and stackable units. more...

FDA-Cleared Liofilchem MIC Test Strip (MTS™) Tedizolid (TZD)

27 Jul 2017 | ClinicalOther

Tedizolid is the seventh in a long series of MIC Test Strip items to be approved by the FDA, following recent approval of the Vancomycin, Dalbavancin, Ceftolozane-tazobactam, Meropenem, Ceftazidime and Telavancin strips. more...

Beer Spoilage Testing and Results in the Same Shift

27 Jul 2017 | Food & Beverage

A new white paper and application note is available for beer spoilage monitoring. more...

Outbreak Highlights Risk of Salmonella Infection from Working in Microbiology Lab

25 Jul 2017 | ClinicalOther

PulseNet has helped CDC and public health officials identify a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections linked to use of the bacterium in clinical, commercial and teaching microbiology laboratories. more...

Rules for Automated Urine Culture Screening Can be Customized

25 Jul 2017 | Clinical

Using the BD Kiestra™ ReadA™ compact’s intelligent incubation and imaging device with high-throughput robotics to perform time series imaging, plates with no significant growth can be automatically released for disposal and the results reported to the customer’s compatible laboratory information system (LIS). more...

When Science Becomes Art – Olympus Image of the Year Award

25 Jul 2017 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Be in with a chance to win a microscope by entering Olympus’ Image of the Year European Life Science Light Microscopy Award, judges are looking for artistic and visual aspects, scientific impact and microscope proficiency. more...

FDA Clearance for ARIES C. difficile Assay Detecting both Toxin A and B

25 Jul 2017 | Clinical

The ARIES® C. difficile Assay detects both toxin A and toxin B, which may reduce the probability of a false negative result from strains that only produce toxin A. more...

Download Astell's New Autoclave Catalogue

24 Jul 2017 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

The Astell catalogue covers all eight autoclave ranges from circular to square section, 33 litre benchtop up to 1200 litre pass-through, and including options for cooling, vacuum and direct steam amongst others. more...

Record Breaking International Audience at IAFP 2017

24 Jul 2017 | Food & Beverage

IAFP 2017’s program featured more than 1,000 presentations including 74 symposia, 14 roundtable sessions, 134 technical presentations, and 675 poster presentations. In the exhibit hall were representatives from 188 companies, including 42 new exhibitors. more...

New ISPE Guidance Document on Risk-Based Manufacture of Pharmaceuticals

24 Jul 2017 | Pharmaceutical

ISPE Baseline® Guide: Risk-Based Manufacture of Pharmaceutical Products (Second Edition) provides a process that allows manufacturers to assess risk and determine where control strategies are necessary to meet acceptable limits for cross-contamination. more...

COPAN Diagnostics Inc. Showcasing PhenoMATRIX™ Smart Algorithms at AACC in San Diego

24 Jul 2017 | ClinicalOther

PhenoMATRIX - automated read interpret and segregate bacterial cultures

PhenoMATRIX™ is a sophisticated suite of algorithms that uses AI to automatically count and recognize organisms, giving microbiology labs the ability to read, interpret and segregate bacterial cultures. more...

Data Integrity for Endotoxin Testing – New FAQs Released to the QC Insider™ Toolbox

24 Jul 2017 | OtherPharmaceutical

Lonza's new FAQ Tech Tip provides a detailed description of data integrity, its requirements and what they mean, as well as guidance for ensuring compliance in endotoxin testing. more...

DISHOP – Easy, Fast and Safe Online Ordering of DMD® Microbial Detection Solutions

24 Jul 2017 | Food & BeverageOther

Innovative media for beverage microbiology

For ready-to-use culture media and rapid solutions for microbial detection in all major beverages like beer, non alcoholic beverages, juice, water and others, Döhler now offers online ordering with payments by credit card and PayPal. more...

New Rapid Yeast and Mold Test for Dairy Products

24 Jul 2017 | Food & BeverageOther

The GreenLight® detection platform from MOCON allows dairies to release product (such as yogurt, soft cheese and cream) in approximately 18 hours with confidence that it does not contain yeast/mold spoilage organisms. more...

TSC Templates Ensure Accurate and Consistent Surface Sampling

21 Jul 2017 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Sterile single use template for environmental monitoring of surfaces

Single use, sterile 10 x 10cm sampling templates from Technical Service Consultants can be used with either swabs or sponges for environmental monitoring of surfaces in food processing, cleanroom or other critical environments. more...

GOSH Selects Cherwell for Support in Excluding Bacterial Spores from Aseptic Compounding

18 Jul 2017 | OtherPharmaceutical

Triple wrapped TSB media for media fill simulation

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Pharmacy Unit and Cherwell jointly published white paper and poster details development of new multilayer packaging of medium to prevent spore contamination prior to compounder validation. more...

Immunoassay for Giardia, Cryptosporidium and E. histolytica in Fecal Specimens

18 Jul 2017 | Clinical

TECHLAB ® , Inc. has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for the TRI-COMBO PARASITE SCREEN ™ test. The TRI-COMBO PARASITE SCREEN ™ test is an enzyme immunoassay for simultaneous qualitative detection of Giardia, Cryptosporidium, and Entamoeba more...

Samco Clicktainer Vials - Secure and Reliable Sample Collection and Transport

18 Jul 2017 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

The wide 53 mm opening on the Thermo Scientific Clicktainer vials is designed for easy specimen collection and handling. The click mechanism is both audible and tactile, assuring users that their samples are safe. more...

CE-IVD Marking for ELITechGroup Multiplex Viral Meningitis Panel

17 Jul 2017 | ClinicalOther

The Meningitis Viral 2 ELITe MGB® Panel, validated with cerebrospinal fluid samples detects and differentiates Enterovirus, Parechovirus and Adenovirus in single reaction. more...

New Entamoeba histolytica Monoclonal Antibodies for ELISA or Lateral Flow

17 Jul 2017 | ClinicalOther

ViroStat has just released a set of new mouse monoclonal antibodies to E. histolytica. These new antibodies function in ELISA and lateral flow applications and thus serve as excellent tools for the detection of this parasite. more...

Inlabtec Serial Diluter Chosen by Leading Food Safety Testing Organization

17 Jul 2017 | Food & BeverageOther

The Inlabtec Serial Diluter has been successfully used by lab staff at SGS Fresenius since the beginning of 2015 eliminating the traditionally time-consuming, laborious tasks of test tube filling, sample cap handling and vortexing during dilutions. more...

CE-IVD Mark for Luminex ARIES® Norovirus Assay from Stool Specimens

11 Jul 2017 | Clinical

Easy to use, sample to answer assay provides rapid detection of leading cause of acute gastroenteritis more...

Boehringer Ingelheim Selects Novatek for Global Environmental Monitoring Program

11 Jul 2017 | Pharmaceutical

NOVA-EM is a GAMP 5 category 3 software system managing all aspects of an automated Environmental Monitoring Program. NOVA-EM is a business ready, process specific “off the shelf” solution that meets 95+ percent of environmental monitoring automaton requirements out of the box. more...

Pasteurization Verification in 5 Mins with ZymoSnap

11 Jul 2017 | Food & BeverageOther

Fast easy pasteurization verification - ZymoSnap

Hygiena’s ZymoSnap ALP has been specifically developed to offer reliable, definitive and repeatable results, even at low levels (25-100 mU/L), with a convenient all-in-one design, requiring only minimal equipment. more...

Fecal Transwab® - MWE’s 'Super Swab' That Ticks All The Boxes!

11 Jul 2017 | ClinicalOther

New generation pre-analytics from Medical Wire

Part of the new generation of preanalyticals, Fecal Transwab® is a new method of collecting and presenting stool specimens that is both compatible with automated processing systems while offering faster turn round for manual processing. more...

AOAC and AFNOR Certs Multiplex PCR Detecting Listeria and L.mono in Single Reaction

10 Jul 2017 | Food & Beverage

BACGene Listeria Multiplex is the first true multiplex real-time PCR detection for Listeria spp. and Listeria monocytogenes in one single reaction more...

Special Focus - What's on Show at IAFP 2017

10 Jul 2017 | Food & BeverageOther

Whether you are attending the IAFP this year or just want to keep up to date with the latest in products for the food microbiology laboratory, you can use our new 'at-a-glance' interactive graphic to quickly and easily see what's going to be on show in Tampa, Florida 9 to 12 July, 2017. more...

Learn More About Bio-Rad's Food & Water Safety Solutions at IAFP Booth 703

07 Jul 2017 | Food & BeverageWater

Come check out our display of chromogenic media, serological tests, water testing solutions, and PCR assays including automation. We’ll show you quality solutions for food safety testing with solid science built on strong partnerships. Booth #703. more...

New IUL Colony Counter Automatically Adjusts for Colony and Agar Type

05 Jul 2017 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

SphereFlash@ is the new automatic colony counter from IUL that automatically adjusts all parameters depending on the colony and agar type so no user input is required it also eliminates any reflections that may interfere with image processing. more...

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