Read-Out Ready Platform Improves Lab Procedures

One-step collection, transport, incubation, and observation devices offer a simple solution for point-of-care (POC) infectious disease diagnosis.

The InTray and InPouch devices combine sample collection, transport, and culture in a single read-out ready platform, thereby reducing handling, increasing productivity, improving throughput, and reducing the risk of sample exposure and contamination.

The InPouch product is an easy-to-use, fully enclosed oxygen-resistant plastic pouch for microbiology sample collection, transport, culture, and observation. Once the sample has been inoculated, the InPouch is sealed against contamination. The optically clear InPouch can be directly viewed under the microscope without the need to prepare a wet mount slide. InPouch offers a variety of media that deliver specificity and selectivity and it has a shelf life of up to one year. InPouch is also compatible for use with polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

The InTray product is a fully enclosed cassette for microbiology sample collection, transport, and culture. This stackable device can be observed under a microscope through optically clear plastic, eliminating the need to prepare a wet mount slide. The fully enclosed system features controlled air exchange to protect against exposure or contamination, and is ideal for field use or austere environments. InTray products featuring Colorex technology produce easy-to-interpret results that can be read visually via color changes in the sample.

BioMed Diagnostics, Inc., (White City, OR, USA), the manufacturer of these microbiology devices, announced that its InTray and InPouch product lines will now be available worldwide through a new agreement with VWR International (Radnor, PA, USA) a global laboratory supply and distribution company. Under the terms of the agreement, VWR will distribute BioMed’s products for the diagnosis of infectious disease.

Steve Goodman, senior vice president of category management for VWR said, “The initial response to these products has been excellent and we look forward to making them available globally to the many labs and facilities that can benefit from their use.”

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