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19-Sept-2005 - LGC Promochem exhibit to focus on the range of ATCC cultures and bioproducts at BioTechnica 2005

LGC Promochem exhibits its specialist range of bioproducts at BioTechnica 2005

LGC Promochem - bringing the important resources of ATCC to European biotechnology industry faster than ever before LGC Promochem will be demonstrating the breadth of its product and service offerings to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, with a focus on its comprehensive range of ATCC cultures and bioproducts, at this year´s BioTechnica in Hannover, Germany, 18-20 October 2005.

As the exclusive European distributor for ATCC products in Europe, LGC Promochem is dedicated to making the important resources from ATCC more easily accessible to the European life science community. A significant expansion to the range of ATCC products - now more than 5000 ATCC items - stocked at its European storage facility, means authentic, high-quality ATCC cultures are available faster and more easily than ever, delivered directly to the customer’s laboratory. The full range of ATCC cultures are available through LGC Promochem including stem cells, cell lines and hybridomas, microbial strains, viruses and antisera as well as the comprehensive portfolio of bioproducts, to assist customers in growing and testing ATCC materials in their laboratory. All these products will be on display at the LGC Promochem stand at this year’s BioTechnica.

Jeffrey Anthony, Business Development Manager at LGC Promochem, said: "This is a fantastic time to be working with ATCC, with a constantly expanding range of products to assist both research and quality control scientists alike. The new stem cell resource centre at ATCC and the Genuine Cultures initiative are just some of the new developments that we are sure will bring significant benefit to the European biotechnology industry".

LGC Promochem also works closely with the world’s leading suppliers of pharmaceutical reference substances to support quality control programmes in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. LGC Promochem is the only organisation where biotechnology companies can meet all of their microbiological and chemical quality control needs in one place. As part of the LGC Group, LGC Promochem is committed to promoting excellence in bioanalytical practice to improve the quality and comparability of analytical data across all areas of chemical and life science analysis.

Many of the other ranges of catalogues from LGC Promochem will be available to view at the BioTechnica stand, including the ´ATCC cell biology´ catalogue and the ´Pharmaceutical reference substances and impurities catalogue 2004/05´. Visitors to the stand will be able to place product orders there, or via LGC Promochem´s interactive website at www.lgcpromochem.com, which offers an advanced search facility and online ordering to account holders for over 11,000 reference materials in English, French or German. Alternatively, readers can telephone +44 (0)20 8943 8489 or fax +44 (0)20 8943 8405 for the UK office, or telephone +49 281 9887230 or fax +49 281 9887239 for the German office.


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