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Solabia and Interscience announce a partnership to develop innovative solutions in microbiology.

François Pointurier, Jules and Emmanuel Jalenques
François Pointurier, Jules and Emmanuel Jalenques

The two French companies, specialized in the development and manufacture of solutions for microbiological analysis, are joining their respective skills and expertise to offer innovative approaches. Biokar Diagnostics division of Solabia Group offers unique expertise in research, formulation and production of culture media. Solabia is one of the few companies in the sector to have mastered production of peptones – the main ingredient in culture media – right through to the production and marketing of its products for laboratories.

Interscience offers a comprehensive range of equipment for microbiological analysis, from sample collection through to the final bacterial analysis. Interscience has gained importance in the global microbiology market, notably thanks to the performance of its automatic end-point and real-time colony counters. Solutions such as Scan AI and ScanStation guarantee accurate, rapid, digitalized and traceable results for all analyses of hygiene indicators and pathogens carried out on Petri dishes.

This highly complementary partnership between Solabia and Interscience helps to enhance traditional culture methods, thereby improving the efficiency and performance of rapidly evolving industrial microbiology laboratories.

Interscience’s solutions, combining advanced imaging with artificial intelligence, herald a new era for the conventional and alternative culture media developed by Biokar Diagnostics.

This synergy between culture-based microbiology and intelligent neural network technology delivers a smoother, more cost-effective and reproducible user experience, while ensuring the microbiological safety of industrial products and, consequently, of the consumer.

François Pointurier and Jules Jalenques
Jules Jalenques and François Pointurier

" By combining our respective expertise with the power of artificial intelligence tools, we enable our customers to obtain results more quickly and achieve unrivalled reproducibility in the analysis of Petri dishes. " said François Pointurier, Head of Solabia’s Diagnostics Business Unit.

Jules Jalenques, co-CEO of Interscience, continues: " we are working together to shape the future of microbiology and our portfolio of solutions, particularly through artificial intelligence technologies, which are already a reality and featured in our Scan AI colony counters. "

About Solabia

Solabia is a vertically integrated manufacturer of natural active ingredients and solutions for the cosmetics, nutraceuticals, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and microbiological diagnostics industries.

With an international presence and reputation spanning more than 50 years, the group draws on strong scientific and industrial expertise. Its diagnostics division, under the Biokar Diagnostics brand, offers a wide range of culture media and solutions dedicated to microbiological testing, intended in particular for the food, pharmaceutical, environmental and animal health industries.

Biokar Petri dish

About Interscience

For over 45 years, Interscience has been designing and manufacturing innovative solutions for industrial microbiological analysis.

The company develops equipment and software for the preparation, analysis and traceability of microbiological samples. Its technologies are used in laboratories across the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, as well as in research. Renowned for the quality and performance of its equipment, Interscience now operates in over 130 countries through its five subsidiaries and international network of distributors.