Author: Dominic

Cirdan has successfully passed its recent surveillance audit for the Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP), ISO 13485:2016 and ISO 9001:2015. Due to the ongoing pandemic this audit was held remotely with our Notified Body, BSI, which presented a new challenge for the team. Click here to read the full article

Cirdan is delighted to announce that it has signed an exclusive agreement with global healthcare firm, Beckton, Dickinson and Company (BD) to distribute its CoreLite™ specimen radiography system in the United States and Canada. Click here to read the full article

Cirdan was delighted to be able to help Northern Pathology Victoria (NPV), the public pathology provider of Northern Health in Melbourne connect to the Australian Government’s My Health Record system. Click here to read the full article

CoreLite is a dedicated specimen x-ray system designed to verify microcalcifications of breast biopsy cores. It is compact and self contained and therefore can be located in the biopsy room where specimens are imaged and verified within seconds at the point of care. Click here to view the full article

Sakura® Finetek undertook a short study into the workflow changes that a pathology laboratory underwent, to examine the differences between working both with and without SMART Automation. The Institute of Pathology at Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln was chosen for this study as it is the main location to the Vivantes Hospital Group. It handles their most… Read more »

Serosep Ltd are pleased to present Altona’s AltoStar, a robotic pipetting workstation for automated purification of nucleic acids, assay setup and cycler programming. A CE-IVD workflow from sample to result with barcoded reagents enabling full process control and traceability. Allowing for parallel testing of SARS-CoV2, Influenza and RSV. Read more https://www.altona-diagnostics.com/en/products/instrumentation/altostar-am16.html

The 4 new pilot programmes have been developed by our teams of expert scientists and the number of distributions we send to participating laboratories reflects the urgency of the testing required. SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Test (Pilot) UK NEQAS Immunology, Immunochemistry & Allergy SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Test (Pilot) UK NEQAS Microbiology Procalcitonin (Pilot) UK NEQAS Immunology, Immunochemistry &… Read more »

AB Scientific have combined with AB Molecular and our respective suppliers to create a family of relevant products to help in the fight against COVID-19 including: Viral Transport Medium Extraction Kits Lysis Buffers Real-Time PCR Test Kits IgG and IgM Antibody ELISA Kits Serology Controls Molecular Quality Controls Click here to view the full article