Oxoid (part of Thermo Fisher Scientific) is one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of microbiological culture media and other diagnostic products.
The corporate headquarters in Basingstoke holds both ISO 9000 and ISO 13485 for medical devices and registrations. The Oxoid range of products is used in clinical and industrial laboratories to isolate and identify the bacteria or other organisms causing disease or spoilage.
Although many traditional culture media have been in use for a considerable time and remain an important part of the range, Oxoid continues to introduce new products in order to improve and speed up the process of isolating organisms from clinical, food or other sources. Changes in eating habits, food production methods and to the environment have led to the increased importance of such organisms as Listeria, E.coli O157, Salmonella and Legionella. Oxoid products developed to detect these organisms are an important part of public health.
Products launched recently include a range of chromogenic media for food pathogens, new M.I.C.Evaluators (M.I.C.E.) - a simple, convenient method for the accurate determination of MIC values, O.B.I.S. - a range of biochemical identification systems. Oxoid is also a distributor in Europe for the BAX system of PCR assays for microbial screening of food samples.
Fannin Limited have been partners with Oxoid for over 25 years in Ireland. Fannin-LIP, a registered ISO 9001:2000 manufacturer located in Galway, supply Oxoid media in prepared plates and bottle format to meet the Irish clinical, pharmaceutical and food laboratories requirements. The comprehensive range of high quality prepared media products are supplied with Quantitative QC certificates which may also be accessed on their website.