BTF, a bioMérieux Company, Leading Quantitative QC in Pharma with BioBallTM Plant Isolate Service
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bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics and leader in microbiological control for the biopharma and food industries, is pioneering a new service to provide pharmaceutical microbiology laboratories with their own isolates in a convenient, easy-to-use format.
BTF, a bioMérieux company based in Sydney, Australia, developed the BioBall® Plant Isolate service in response to changing practices in culture media quality control for validation and routine testing. BioBall Plant Isolate will enable customers to implement best practices in media QC for their critical environmental monitoring and sterility testing.
Standard BioBall products are derived from strains sourced from internationally-recognized culture collections. BioBall is a small, water-soluble ball containing a precise number of micro-organisms, delivering unprecedented accuracy for quantitative microbiological quality control. More than 25 individual strains are available in standard BioBall products for applications in pharmaceutical, food and water testing industries