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Oxoid Dry-Bags Make Light Work of Bulk Media Preparation

Featured news, News / 18 February 2011 / Mackintosh Lloyd Ltd

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced a new customer application video which shows food microbiologists how Oxoid Dry-Bags are a labour-saving, convenient and rapid way to prepare and dispense large volumes of culture media and diluents.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Same Day Results for Environmental Listeria with DuPont Qualicon BAX® System Listeria Assay

Featured news, News / 27 September 2010 / Mackintosh Lloyd Ltd

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced that the DuPont Qualicon BAX® System Reverse Transcriptase 8-hour Listeria Assay is now available alongside the Oxoid range in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The assay allows food companies to detect environmental Listeria spp. in less than 8 hours – saving more than two days on traditional detection methods and allowing problems to be swiftly identified, ultimately helping companies avoid product recalls and processing line shutdowns.

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Oxoid Brilliance Bacillus cereus Agar Improves Detection of Micro-organisms in Food

Featured news, News / 15 June 2010 / Oxoid

Oxoid, a world leading microbiology brand, reports that its agar for identifying Bacillus cereus (B. cereus) can accurately test food and beverages for this illness-causing micro-organism. Brilliance™ Bacillus cereus Agar allows laboratories to significantly improve the detection and recovery of B. cereus. Food microbiologists in both manufacturing companies and research laboratories rely on Brilliance Bacillus cereus Agar for rapid identification of the bacterium. (more…)

Oxoid Provides Food Testing Labs with Simple Remel RapID Range of Biochemical Identification Panels

Featured news / 28 May 2010 / Oxoid

Oxoid, a world leading microbiology brand, today announced that the Remel RapID™ microbial identification systems are now available alongside the Oxoid range. The one-step inoculation procedure of RapID makes it the easiest ID system on the market to use. And results are available in just four hours, making it the fastest and most convenient ID system in its class, with the potential to save time, labour and money (ref 1). (more…)

Oxoid Culture Journal Focuses on Cronobacter Species and Mycobacterium bovis

Featured news / 11 May 2010 / Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Oxoid, a world leading microbiology brand, announced that the latest edition of its journal, Culture (Volume 31, No 1), is now available. The issue focuses on two key areas: the newly designated genus Cronobacter, an organism that has come to prominence due to its association with severe neonatal infections, necrotizing enterocolitis, septicaemia and potentially fatal meningitis, and Mycobacterium bovis, the causative bacterium of bovine tuberculosis. (more…)

Oxoid Brilliance Staph 24 Agar Identifies Staphylococci in Foods within 24 Hours

Featured news / 23 March 2010 / Oxoid

Oxoid, a world leading microbiology brand, today announced the launch of Brilliance™ Staph 24 Agar – a selective and diagnostic chromogenic medium for the isolation and enumeration of coagulase-positive staphylococci (CPS) in foods, within 24 hours. (more…)

Campylobacter Testing with NEW Oxoid Brilliance CampyCount Agar

Featured news / 23 March 2010 / Oxoid

Oxoid has launched Brilliance™ CampyCount Agar, a new, highly selective, easy-to-read chromogenic medium specifically designed for the identification and enumeration of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in poultry and related samples. (more…)

Oxoid to Offer the DuPont Qualicon BAX® System Real-Time PCR Assay for Vibrios

Featured news / 3 December 2009 / Oxoid

Oxoid, a world leading microbiology brand, today announced that the DuPont Qualicon BAX® System Real-Time PCR Assay for Vibrios is now available alongside the Oxoid range in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. (more…)

Oxoid Alliance Allows European Food Manufacturers to Test Raw Materials, Finished Product and the Processing Environment for Food Allergens

Featured news / 16 April 2009 / Oxoid

Oxoid, a world leading microbiology brand, has announced that the ELISA Systems range of quick and easy-to-use food allergen tests kits is now available alongside the Oxoid range. (more…)