Microbiology News: Feb 2019

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Microbiology News: Feb 2019

Recombinant Technologies for Endotoxin Testing:
A Boost in Interest

28 Feb 2019 | Pharmaceutical

Lonza’s PyroGene™ recombinant Factor C Assay does not rely on lysate derived from horseshoe crabs and has proven equivalency to LAL-based methods. Therefore, companies can feel confident in implementing rFC methods in their QC testing labs.

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New & Emerging Methods in Microbiology Workshops

26 Feb 2019 | Food & Beverage

New and Emerging Methods in Microbiology Workshops

Focusing on the latest advances, news and trends within the industry, Neogen have put together varied programmes suited to both food manufacturers and commercial laboratories alike. more...

Explore Bacterial Endotoxin Testing from Charles River

25 Feb 2019 | Pharmaceutical

Charles River’s portfolio of FDA-licensed products for bacterial endotoxin testing is designed to increase data integrity compliance, reduce retest rates, and streamline manufacturing processes, allowing prompt, confident decisions.
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Corning^® Gosselin^™ Consumables Designed for Optimum Microbiological Analysis

25 Feb 2019 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Corning offers a line of consumables, including Petri dishes, inoculating loops, and spreaders for a beginning-to-end solution for quality testing labs across industry segments. more...

Well Respected, US Food Safety Expert Confirms Solus One Performance

25 Feb 2019 | Food & Beverage

Solus One assays for the detection of Salmonella and Listeria provide a next day negative or presumptive positive result thus enabling prompt corrective actions where contamination is found. more...

Reliable Automated Cannabis Testing Solutions

25 Feb 2019 | Food & BeverageOtherPharmaceutical

Hamilton’s Microlab^® STARlet automated liquid handler can run the SenSATIVAx® DNA Purification Kit which purifies cannabis and microbial DNA from any matrix, and the qPCR-based PathoSEEK^® Microbial Safety Testing Platform, the only microbial testing method validated on cannabis. more...

CE Mark for Determine™ HBsAg 2 - Sensitive Lateral Flow for Hepatitis B Surface Antigen

25 Feb 2019 | Clinical

The Determine HBsAg 2 provides rapid and accurate results of one's HBV status with an analytical sensitivity of 0.1 IU/mL, it's a visually read, qualitative immunoassay for the detection of HBsAg in serum, plasma or whole blood. more...

QIAGEN Enters License Agreement With Curetis for Bioinformatics AMR Research

25 Feb 2019 | Clinical

QIAGEN has received an exclusive license to develop and commercialize general bioinformatics offerings and services for AMR research based on Ares Genetics’ database on the genetics of antimicrobial resistance, ARESdb, as well as on the ARES bioinformatics AMR toolbox and AREStools. more...

DNA-tagged Particles Are Basis for On-site Sanitation Verification for Food Processing Plants

25 Feb 2019 | Food & Beverage

SafeTraces' saniDART™ uses a system of non-living, food-grade DNA-tagged particles that behave like pathogenic bacteria under the action of sanitizers. These particles become the basis for a 15-minute, on-site sanitation verification for food processing plants. more...

British In Vitro Diagnostics Association Launches YouTube Channel

25 Feb 2019 | Clinical

A new YouTube channel from the BIVDA will include new videos, interviews and much more. more...

NG-Test® CARBA 5: Detect and Characterise OXA-48-like, KPC, NDM, VIM & IMP in 15 minutes

25 Feb 2019 | Clinical

NG-Test® CARBA 5, is used to detect and characterise the five main carbapenemases which are the molecules secreted by the bacteria inhibiting the action of the carbapenem class of antibiotics, considered as last resort drugs. more...

Funding for Next Generation High-throughput, Low-cost Same Shift AST

19 Feb 2019 | Clinical

Based in microplates, SeLux Diagnostics uses a bacterial amplification method that does not affect cell growth and can take into account shape-changes that can occur in the presence of antibiotics. more...

FDA-Cleared Liofilchem MTS™ (MIC Test Strip) Tetracycline (TE)

19 Feb 2019 | ClinicalOther

Liofilchem has received clearance from the FDA to market in the United States the MTS™ (MIC Test Strip) Tetracycline, a quantitative assay for determining the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of Tetracycline against S. aureus, A. baumanii, E.coli, K. pneumoniae, K. aerogenes, K. oxytoca. more...

SpeeDx Appoint AB ANALITICA and Immuno Diagnostic Oy as New European Distributors

19 Feb 2019 | Clinical

SpeeDx ResistancePlus^® and PlexPCR^® tests are now available via AB ANALITICA in Italy and Immuno Diagnostic Oy in Finland . more...

Fungal Isolates: An Approach to Species Level Identification

18 Feb 2019 | Food & Beverage

Vikki Mitchell, Identification Services Manager, NCIMB considers the challenges of fungal identification and looks at two available techniques. more...

Campden BRI's New Brexit Advice Hub for Food Industry - Free Intro Trial

18 Feb 2019 | Food & Beverage

A ‘one-stop-shop’ for all regulatory and legislative changes associated with Brexit, Campden BRI's new hub includes comprehensive links to the latest government updates, the ability to submit questions and a frequently answered questions section. more...

How to Ensure WFI, Raw Materials and Finished Product are Pyrogen Free

18 Feb 2019 | Pharmaceutical

Bacterial Endotoxin Testing has many applications: Finished product and raw material QC release, the calculation of endotoxin limits for ingredients and resolution of out-of-specification results. Here’s how Honeyman can help you assure compliance. more...

New FDA Clearance for VITEK^® MS: Expanded ID for Challenging Pathogens

11 Feb 2019 | Clinical

Keep pace with emerging pathogens. FDA-cleared IVD database includes highly pathogenic Brucella species, Candida auris and Elizabethkingia anophelis, as well as differentiation within the Acinetobacter complex, amongst other benefits more...

Full Traceability and Improved Repeatability in Manual Pipetting

11 Feb 2019 | ClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

The Andrew Alliance Pipette+ system comprises several components that communicate with one another: electronic single and multichannel pipettes, an intelligent stand, and novel cloud-based software. more...

PureFocus 850 - the Ultimate in High Speed Microscope Autofocus

11 Feb 2019 | ClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

The PureFocus 850 is able to precisely and consistently focus on your samples when the other systems fall short. Applications include materials, life sciences and semi conductor sectors. more...

bioMérieux Acquiries Invisible Sentinel Inc.

11 Feb 2019 | Food & Beverage

The addition of Invisible Sentinel to the bioMerieux offering strengthens its position in the area of food pathogen testing and spoilage organism by expanding into new areas such as breweries and wineries. more...

CE Marked Novodiag^® CarbaR+ Detects CPE and Colistin Resistance Markers in One Single Test

11 Feb 2019 | Clinical

CE-IVD marking of Novodiag^® CarbaR+, the 3rd molecular test on the automated system Novodiag^®, for detection of the main Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) and colistin resistance markers in one single test. more...

Easier Cell Culture Liquid Handling with New 24-Channel Pipetting Heads for VIAFLO 96/384

11 Feb 2019 | ClinicalPharmaceutical

New 24-channel pipetting heads for handheld electronic pipettes allow plate filling, reagent addition or sample transfers to be performed in a single step, enabling quicker and more accurate pipetting for cell cultures. more...

In vitro Pyrogen Detection of Both Endotoxins and NEPs: Application Note

11 Feb 2019 | Pharmaceutical

The PyroMAT^® system offers a robust and sensitive solution for pyrogen detection supported by international regulations and guidelines to reduce animal consumption for pyrogen tests. more...

Special Focus on Identifying the Contamination Source

05 Feb 2019 | Food & BeveragePharmaceutical

Identifying root cause track and trace microbial strains

A special focus on products and services to help track and trace the source of microbial contamination in food, pharma and biotech production. more...

Made in the U.S.A: Puritan Medical Products Achieves 100th Anniversary Milestone

05 Feb 2019 | Pharmaceutical

Puritan Medical Products, a Guilford, Maine-based global manufacturer of single-use products will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2019

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Charles River's Erin Patton Explains Why You Should Care About Burkholderia cepacia

04 Feb 2019 | Pharmaceutical

The Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) species are a group of gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria which have been shown in recent years to be of concern for patients, and as such, for manufacturers of drugs and health care products that contribute to patient health. more...

Cherwell Announces New Cleanroom Microbiology Focused Website Launch

04 Feb 2019 | Pharmaceutical

Delivering Confidence for your Cleanroom

Cherwell's new website features easier navigation for environmental monitoring and sterilisation process validation product information with expert advice. more...

TRACKMAN® Connected Automatically Records Every Pipetting Step

04 Feb 2019 | Laboratory Equipment

TRACKMAN Connected is an all-in-one kit that connects the bench via a Samsung Galaxy tablet preloaded with the app PipettePilot, which tracks and registers all actions done in an experiment in real time, and PipetteScope, which displays pipette activity and helps keep pipettes calibrated. more...

Beckman Coulter Acquires Labcyte - Acoustic Liquid Handling Company

04 Feb 2019 | Clinical

Acoustic liquid handling company, Labcyte has been acquired by Beckman Coulter. more...

Environmental Monitoring for the Identification and Control of Sources of Contamination in Food

01 Feb 2019 | Food & Beverage

How to set up a Food Environmental Monitoring Program

By shifting the emphasis from finished product testing to proactive prevention, identification and elimination of sources of food contamination can occur before they create a serious and costly problem. more...

Using PCR to Detect Specific Contaminants

01 Feb 2019 | Food & Beverage

Use the power of PCR to detect harmful bacteria and other microbes in product and environmental samples. Learn how customers around the world have made the BAX System an integral part of their quality control systems.
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Efficient Removal of Wine Spoilage Microorganisms

01 Feb 2019 | Food & Beverage

Amazon Filters developed the SupaPore VPW filter range which contains an advanced single layer PES membrane that offers the highest flow rates whilst effectively removing all spoilage microorganisms. Download a case study describing removal of Brettanomyces bruxellensis microorganism from wine. more...

Biomillenia Launches Microbiome Culture Collection Service

01 Feb 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceuticalMicrobiome

Biomillenia's microbiome culture collection service, based on its proprietary microbiome-on-a-chip technology platform can identify previously uncultured bacteria, Biomillenia is able to build a highly diverse culture collection from single cells from any natural sample. more...

Thermo Scientific Listeria Precis Methods next generation culture media technology

Rapid Sterility and Bioburden Testing for Pharmaceuticals

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