BIOTECON Diagnostics GmbH and Xiril AG start worldwide sales cooperation

07-16-2010: BIOTECON Diagnostics GmbH and Xiril AG announced a new OEM partnership in July 2010: based on Xiril´s Robotic Workstations BIOTECON Diagnostics will worldwide exclusively distribute their own automation solution labelled “foodproof® RoboPrep+ powered by Xiril” together with BIOTECON Diagnostics’ foodproof® Magnetic Preparation Kit I and real-time PCR based detection kits for the food market, e.g. for Salmonella detection.

After an intensive validation program performed at BIOTECON Diagnostics laboratories, the foodproof® RoboPrep+ Series is now commercially available to the worldwide food market. This is the first validated automated solution for PCR-based microbial testing specifically designed for the food market.

BIOTECON Diagnostics developed the foodproof® RoboPrep+ Series to meet the need of a leading international confectionary manufacturer, who has now introduced the system into several of its factories for automated Salmonella testing. Multiple food matrices have been tested, making the system very useful for any kind of food industry with pathogen testing needs at medium to high throughput.

A stepwise introduction of the technology for other parameters, such as E.coli or Listeria, is in development.