Marel Food Systems has joined PicknPack--a consortium of European companies, industry professionals and organizations that combine their expertise in an effort to develop flexible robotic systems for automated adaptive packaging of fresh and processed food products.
Eurofins Scientific--a firm that conducts bioanalytical testing--announced last week that it has signed an agreement to acquire Exova's food, water and pharmaceutical testing business in the UK and Ireland, comprising ten laboratories.
Roka Bioscience, Inc.--a molecular diagnostics company focused on providing advanced testing solutions for the detection of foodborne pathogens--has announced that the Extended On Board Stability feature is now available for the Atlas System.
Metrohm--a company that offers analytical laboratory and process systems for titration, ion chromatography, electrochemistry and spectroscopy-- has announced the launch of OMNIS, its new platform for wet chemical analysis.
Eurofins Scientific--a provider of environment testing services--has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire EAC Corporation Ltd. from Asahi Industries Co., Ltd. in Japan.
AOAC INTERNATIONAL has announced the release of the new 20th Edition of the Official Methods of Analysis--the compendium of methods adopted by AOAC containing approximately 3000 methods and considered the most authoritative volume in its field.
Neogen Corporation has announced that it has acquired Preserve International and Tetradyne LLC, sister companies owned and operated by the private Nevada-based Preserve International corporation.
MilliporeSigma has earned ISO/IEC-17025:2005 accreditation for the culture media manufactured at its Microbiology Quality Control Laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany.
This week, 3M Food Safety announced that its 3M™ Molecular Detection Assay 2 – Salmonella has been approved for Official Method of Analysis by AOAC International (OMA method number 2016.01).