Luxcel Biosciences Showcases Its New GreenLight™ 900 Series at the 2011 International Dairy Show, A Screening Platform for Food Safety making agar plates obsolete.
Benefits include same day results combined with high throughput capabilities.
ATLANTA, GA., September 19, 2011 – Luxcel Biosciences directly targets the food safety and packaging industry with cutting-edge sensors and tests to monitor bacterial growth . At the 2011 International Dairy Show at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA, Booth 513 (September 19 – 21), Luxcel will be discussing a major new innovation for the screening of bacteria in raw and pasteurized milk.
Providing cost effective benefits and quick results, the GreenLight™ range of food safety tests
allows for an easy, same-day detection and enumeration of bacteria in food and beverage samples by measuring bacterial oxygen consumption and equating oxygen consumption to microbial load. If the bacteria can breath, the GreenLight™ technology can measure and quantify the contamination.
“An increasing appreciation for the importance of food and microbiological safety has resulted in a demand for a rapid high throughput method for bacterial quantification to deal with the increasing number of food samples that require testing,” said AnnMarie Barrett, Business Operations Manager. “Food processors will now have a faster, less labour intensive screening method compared to traditional agar methods.”
With GreenLight, benefits include:
• Same day results
• Easy sample preparation
• Simple ‘mix and measure’ protocols
• Detects live bacteria
• Save on time, labor, consumables, remove the need for agar plates
• AOAC certified, license no.061002
Based in Co. Cork, Ireland, Luxcel Biosciences was founded in 2002. The company has won several industry awards, including the prestigious all-Ireland ‘Young Company of the Year’ Award , and the Small Firms Association (SFA) of Ireland ‘Innovators of the Year’ Award for companies with 250 employees or less . Luxcel’s customers range from major global pharmaceutical companies and leading processed food manufacturers to biotechnology companies.
Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and promotion of the indigenous business sector. Enterprise Ireland’s mission is to accelerate the development of world-class Irish companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity.
The companies attending the 2011 International Dairy Show as part of the Enterprise Ireland delegation include Softtrace Ltd., Trustwater, ONG Automation, Keenan, Luxcel Biosciences, Biotector, Crème Software, and Dairy Master.