Microbiology News : Feb 2020
HiberGene's LAMP-based Covid-19 assay is currently primed for evaluation in China for clinical use. The 'near-patient' assay can provide results in one hour after taking a sample from the patient. In this interview, rapidmicrobiology.com talks to Gary Keating (HiberGene's CTO). more...
Vela Diagnostics SARS-CoV-2 Assay Available for Pre-Order
27 Feb 2020 | C
Vela Diagnostics have announced that its ViroKey™ SA201 SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test is now available for pre-order as the NGS solutions provider applies for emergency use authorisation (EUA) from the US FDA. more...
Hygiena’s UltraSnap ATP Test received Performance Tested MethodSM certification from the AOAC-RI on the new EnSURE™ Touch luminometer, demonstrating the system's sensitivity, reliability and robust operation. more...
First CE-Mark on SARS-2-CoV Assay Goes to Primerdesign
25 Feb 2020 | C
Primerdesign is the first medical diagnostics company to receive CE-marking for its Covid-19 diagnostic assay. The genesig® Covid-19 Real-Time PCR Assay has 100% homology with all 87 whole-genome sequences available on the public GISAID Epiflu database. more...
With applications for food pathogens, water and biopharmaceutical indicator organisms. The Pall Genedisc system uses an all in one cartridge that comes complete with ready to use reagents, automated barcode reading determines the protocol - press the button and go! more...
Liferiver Biotech have announced massive demand on its 2-hour SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test. LifeRivers partners Bio Molecular Systems have prioritized its production to meet the demand for its compatible MIC qPCR instrument. more...
NEW: Bio-Rad’s RAPID’Campylobacter Available in Pre-poured Plates
24 Feb 2020 | F&B
RAPID'Campylobacter agar is a selective chromogenic media for the detection and enumeration of the main species of thermophilic Campylobacter (C. jejuni, C. coli and C. lari) in food products and environmental samples. more...
Eggs: a Challenge to Allergen Analysis
24 Feb 2020 | F&B
Does your test system detect only native egg protein? Processed eggs can be harder to detect. Find out how you can safeguard your products and protect allergy sufferers with R-Biopharm, ELISA test Ridascreen® Egg. more...
Expression of Interest: Test Developers to Participate in FIND-WHO initiative to evaluate SARS-CoV-2 molecular diagnostics. more...
Latest Microbiology Newsletter - 18 Feb 2020
24 Feb 2020 | F&BCP
Everything you need to know about Salmonella testing in foods plus latest updates on swabs for COVIS-19 and kit too. more...
How To Be Sure Your Rapid Micro Kit Does Exactly What it Says On The Tin
21 Feb 2020 | F&B
Validation of rapid microbiological methods is vital when choosing the right kit for your food or beverage testing. In this special interview with members of the MicroVal committee, we learn what MicroVal validation means and how it compares to AOAC, AFNOR and NordVal. more...
Ares Genetics AMR Database Supports New NGS-Based AST
20 Feb 2020 | C
Ares Genetics has launched an early access version of ARESupa Universal Pathegenome Assay; an AI-powered AST with a reference database containing whole-genome information on 40,000 clinical isolates. more...
Merck, the vibrant science and technology company, announced the launch of the latest innovation in pharmaceutical bioburden and water testing with the new Milliflex® Oasis system. more...
For obtaining a complete microbiome, the lysis/DNA purification protocol (patent pending) of the Shoreline Rapid Prep ensures that no microbe is left behind, without the need for cumbersome bead beating, while preserving DNA integrity. more...
Special Focus on the Detection of Salmonella in Food
18 Feb 2020 | F&B
In this special focus find out about the latest rapid test methods for the detection of Salmonella in Foods. more...
This recent whitepaper uncovers data integrity requirements and what auditors may be looking for in your lab. more...
Reduce the Time to Prepare Enrichment Media by as Much as 80%
18 Feb 2020 | F&B
Improve your lab’s testing throughput and safety by eliminating many of the standard steps in preparing enrichment media for bacteria detection. With Actero™ EZ-Media Bag, the medium is ready-to-use in 30 minutes or less. “Always easy. Always right.” more...
The MALDI Biotyper was already validated by MicroVal for the confirmation of Salmonella spp. presumptive colonies isolated from XLD, BGA, 3 chromogenic agars based on C8-esterase activity detection and nonselective media, it now includes Neogen's CASE agar. more...
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18 Feb 2020 | F&BWCPVCCM
Does your microbiology lab need the most accurate, most robust results possible? Do you need to improve workflows whilst keeping costs down? The free weekly rapidmicrobiology.com newsletter is focused on the very latest products and services to help you do just that! more...
Salmonella spp. is one of the most important pathogens in the food chain, and most food samples are tested for it by culture media methods. But not all culture media is compliant with regulations. more...
Food Poisoning from Campylobacter spp.
17 Feb 2020 | F&B
With millions of cases, worldwide, each year of foodborne Campylobacteriosis; learn more about these important diarrheal disease-causing pathogens, including the detection and enumeration of Campylobacter spp. in food and environmental samples according to international standards. more...
Technical Service Consultants Ltd [TSC] have recently launched a new and improved range of 2 x paired and 5 x paired poultry boot swab kits for the monitoring of Salmonella in poultry flocks by way of floor litter and other surfaces. more...
Proficiency Testing Samples that Provides a Real-World Challenge
17 Feb 2020 | F&B
LGC Proficiency Testing Salmonella range provide your analysts with the opportunity to fully challenge their methods under a number of different scenarios and increase their likelihood of detecting Salmonella in a real-world sample. more...
Real-Time PCR and Chromogenic Media to Detect Salmonella in Food
17 Feb 2020 | F&B
Learn more about Salmonella detection in food samples with the Bio-Rad complete solution.
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The Food Safety law firm Marler-Clark are petitioning the USDA's Food Safety & Inspection Services (FSIS) to have 31 'Salmonella Outbreak Serovars' to be declared as adulterants in meat and poultry products as they have demonstrated to be injurious to human health. more...
NEOGEN’s Solutions for Salmonella
17 Feb 2020 | F&B
We offer a range of both traditional and rapid, alternative methods for the detection of Salmonella including our proprietary CASE (Chromogenic Agar for Salmonella Esterase) formulation. View our innovative solutions & workflows with our free Guide to Food Microbiology Testing - available now. more...
Thermo Fisher Partner up to Develop Nanotech Clinical Assays
17 Feb 2020 | C
Thermo Fisher Scientific has begun a collaboration with NanoPin, a developer in advanced blood-based infectious disease detection platforms. Using Thermo Fisher's LCMS technology, they will develop sensitive clinical assays for infectious diseases. more...
Public health laboratories are sending back CDC 2019-nCoV diagnostic kits due to inconclusive results during validation. CDC state the reagents are being reformulated but have yet to announce the date of their release. more...
Touch Screen Repeating Pipette Can Sequentially Dispense Different Volumes
17 Feb 2020 | F&BCP
In addition to standard pipetting, dispensing, auto dispensing and a proprietary “learn” function, advanced modes include sequential dispensing of different volumes, multi-aspiration of different volumes and a titration mode. more...
Experts Cover E. coli STEC and Salmonella
14 Feb 2020 | F&B
On Thursday 27 February, Campden BRI is running a seminar with expert international speakers to discuss the prevention of STEC and Salmonella contamination in the food industry. Fiona Cawkell, Microbiology Proficiency Scheme Manager, Campden BRI tells us what to expect. more...
IRIS Salmonella, a Negative Screening Within 37 Hours
14 Feb 2020 | F&B
IRIS Salmonella® is an alternative research method of Salmonellae. It permits the detection of all Salmonellae in human, animal food products and environmental samples and provides a negative screening within 37 hours. more...
PCRmax releases their Covid-19 qPCR Kit, a diagnostic kit that has 100% homology with 95% of the sequences published on the GISAID as of the 23rd of January. The target gene is RdRP, the same target used for SARS and related viruses but without any cross-reactivity shown. more...
3M Food Safety Covers the Broadening Scope of Environmental Monitoring
14 Feb 2020 | F&B
Raj Rajagopal, 3M Technical Senior Global Technical Service Specialist talks to rapidmicrobiology.com about the broadening scope in environmental monitoring (EM) and how with 3M's advancement in EM methods, food producers can keep above the high standards in place. more...
Emergency Special Focus on Covid-19 (2019-nCoV, Coronavirus)
13 Feb 2020 | C
In this rapidmicrobiology emergency special focus, we bring you the latest options for specimen collection, ready to use diagnostics and reagents for kit development - please note many kits are suitable for research use only (RUO). more...
Ares Genetics and BGI Group work together to equip European laboratories to sequence and detect 2019-nCoV with MGI Tech's DNBSEQ-T7 sequencing platform and BGI's RT-PCR reagents. more...
Roche is now distributing Tib-Molbiol's LightMix® Modular assays for the screening and confirmation of the 2019 Wuhan Coronavirus. This diagnostic tool is compatible with Roche's Lightcycler 480 series and Magna Pure24 instruments. more...
A successful diagnostic test begins at sample collection because improper sampling can result in an inadequate specimen, rendering a diagnostic test inconclusive or incorrect. more...
Live & Inactivated Coronaviruses for Assay Development
12 Feb 2020 | C
Microbiologics is your trusted partner in biomaterials for research of the 2019n-CoV. We offer live & inactivated 229E and OC43 coronaviruses (which contain the entire RNA virus genome) and subgenomic DNA clones of the HKU and NL66 coronaviruses. more...
Which Swabs to Use for Coronavirus Testing
12 Feb 2020 | C
Based on CDC guidelines for clinical specimens, swabs with synthetic fibers and plastic shafts, like Puritan flock swabs, should be used for nasopharyngeal collections when 2019-nCoV is suspected. It’s important not to use calcium alginate swabs or those with wooden shafts. more...
Not Just Any Sponge on a Stick!
11 Feb 2020 | F&BCPVCC
TSC new and improved Envirostik is perfect for sampling larger surfaces in a wide and varied range of environments including food production areas, clinical and veterinary infection control and pharmaceutical and cosmetics facilities. more...
BIOTECON Diagnostics Launches NEW foodproof® Beer Screening 2 LyoKit
11 Feb 2020 | F&B
The foodproof Beer Screening 2 LyoKit is a user-friendly lyophilized real-time PCR test for simultaneous detection of 30+ beer spoilage organisms that also differentiates between some of the worst spoilers. more...
The new SAS Tri-Clover Isolator Head for Microbial Air Sampler available from Cherwell Laboratories allows easier installation within restricted-access barrier systems (RABs) and filling lines for environmental monitoring in grade A environments. more...
Public Health England has increased its 2019-nCoV testing capacity to 1000 samples today using their in-house designed diagnostic kit. They have now also agreed with the WHO to take in samples from countries who do not have the resources. more...
HHS Opens up Funding Agency for 2019-nCoV Diagnostic Kits
11 Feb 2020 | C
The US Department of Human Health and Services are now accepting abstract submissions for 2019-nCoV diagnostics development funding. The technology must already be approved by the FDA and meet the criteria for EUA within 12 weeks of receiving the award. more...
A fully automated, sample-to-result platform for molecular diagnostics, now with new options for scalability, the Panther portfolio lets labs increase testing capacity without additional staff. more...
Co-Diagnostics CoPrimer™ is Applied to 2019-nCoV Screening Assay
11 Feb 2020 | C
Awarded a 'Technical Advance' accolade in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, the CoPrimer™ mismatch reduction technology designed by Co-Diagnostics, has been incorporated into their Logix Smart™ 2019-nCoV qPCR assay. The product is available now and for RUO. more...
Latest Microbiology Newsletter - 11 Feb 2020
11 Feb 2020 | F&BCP
Get the latest updates on microbiology products for Covid-19, flow cytometry, Grade A air monitoring, large swabs for EM of surfaces and the latest in seminars and webinars. more...
Based on the presence of the urease enzyme found in certain bacterial species that cause pneumonia, such as S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, Klebsiella and H. influenzae. Live urease-containing bacteria can be detected using inhaled 13C-urea which is converted by these bacteria to labelled carbon dioxide more...
Metis solution is a rapid method for microbiological testing using flow cytometry for quality control in food and cosmetic industries. We enable you to release your product faster with maximum reliability and decrease up to 20% of your storage area. more...
On the frontline developing qPCR primers/probes to detect 2019-nCoV is Prof. Antonio Marinez-Murcia, CEO of Genetic PCR Solutions (GPS™). In this interview with rapidmicrobiolgy.com, he talks about why their ready-to-use qPCR format can detect multiple variants of this virus. more...
Newly appointed Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Dr. Raffaella Giardino will lead strategy development and oversee execution for Microbiologics’ global sales, business development, and marketing teams. more...
A study on coronavirus prevention has been published ahead of time to stem the 2019-nCoV epidemic. Professors of Hygiene and Virology, based in Germany, have collaborated in the study and have found prevention strategies to be efficient against the coronaviruses and applies to 2019-nCoV. more...
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GPS™ Delivers Same Day Foodborne Pathogen Results
10 Feb 2020 | F&B
GPS™ has developed a protocol for foodborne pathogen detection that gives sample to result in a single working day. The time of each step (enrichment, extraction, thermo cycling) has been reduced and the qPCR procedure simplified and optimized, using ready-to-use MONODOSE qPCR reagents. more...
Adam Herridge, Product Manager at Primerdesign, talks to rapidmicrobiology.com about the genesig 2019-nCoV qPCR Kit, the first diagnostics kit to be made in Europe with 100% specificity, and relays to us his concerns over his competitor's products. more...
Shift to Paradigm™ Low-Retention Tips
07 Feb 2020 | F&BCPCCM
Paradigm™ low-retention range of non-filter reload, and filter tips featuring Aerogard® technology, truly epitomises the perfect pipetting experience. Universal design means the tips are compatible with a variety of popular pipette brands and models, including the alpha+ range of pipettes. more...
Hygiene Monitoring: Are You Getting The Most From Your System?
07 Feb 2020 | F&B
Hygiene monitoring is an essential part of any food production process. With so many testing options available on the market how can you be sure you are getting the most from your system? Register to attend our webinar today!
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Solus One Salmonella for Next Day Detection in Cocoa Products.
06 Feb 2020 | F&B
Solus One Salmonella granted AOAC PTM extension to scope for cocoa products. more...
In addition to Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Kit, MoBiTec Now Offers Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time Multiplex RT-PCR Kit (Detection for 3 Genes) more...
New Strains Added to NCIMB Culture Collection
06 Feb 2020 | F&BO
Four new strains have been added to the NCIMB culture collection - the UK's National Collection of Industrial Food and Marine Bacteria. more...
Latest Microbiology Newsletter - 4 Feb 2020
06 Feb 2020 | F&BCM
Find the latest product updates for your micro lab - 2019-CoV swabs and detection kits, Camplyobacter without tears, competition for pipettes more...
The CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCov) Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-PCR Diagnostic Panel authorised for Emergency Use Only has begun shipping to selected laboratories more...
First 2019-nCoVqPCR Kit Commercially Available
05 Feb 2020 | C
Genetic PCR Solutions™ real time PCR (qPCR) has been adapted to our innovative MONODOSE format, single PCR reactions tubes which contain all reagents (dehydrated) to which only sample need to be added. more...
CDC has released Interim Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens from PUIs for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). COPAN’s Kit of 3mL UTM® & 2 FLOQSwabs™ can be used to investigate novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as per CDC guidelines. more...
Introducing RapidChek® Campylobacter from Romer Labs®
04 Feb 2020 | F&B
The poultry industry needs a simple, cost-effective alternative for Campylobacter testing that allows for high throughput. RapidChek® Campylobacter uses a streamlined aerobic enrichment and sensitive antibody-based lateral flow to detect C. jejuni, C. coli, and C. lari in poultry carcass rinses. more...
Testing Food for Salmonella - How Much Do You Know? - Quiz
04 Feb 2020 | F&B
How well do you Really know Salmonella? Take our quiz and find out! more...
Find the Right Autoclave For Your Lab on New Priorclave Website
04 Feb 2020 | F&BCPVCC
Find the right autoclave for your lab using the new Priorclave website - choose from benchtop, compact, top loading, front loading, pass-through, powerdoor and stackable designs. more...
BGI has successfully developed a Real-Time Fluorescent RT-PCR kit for detecting 2019-nCoV, which can issue results in a few hours. The kits have already been issued to many hospitals and disease control centers. more...
Veredus' Lab-on-Chip Coronavirus Identifier Now Available
03 Feb 2020 | C
Veredus Laboratories have developed a Lab-on-Chip diagnostic tool for the detection and differentiation of 2019-nCoV, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. The PCR and microarray technology can give results in 2 hours and is designed to be able to detect mutated versions of each of the viruses. more...
China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved China's first CFDA certified 2019-nCoV nucleic acid diagnostic kit. The Sansure Biotech diagnostic kit has a 30 minute turnaround time which will shorten detection time and recognise suspected cases and latent infections. more...
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