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Marcy l’Etoile (France) - Oct. 8, 2007. bioMérieux, a leading industrial microbiology and in vitro diagnostics company, has signed an exclusive global sales representative agreement with Compliance Software Solutions Corporation (CSSC) to market environmental monitoring software for the pharmaceutical industry.
Through the agreement, bioMérieux will market CSSC’s MIMS™ software with its VITEK® 2 Compact microbial identification system. The MIMS software package offers a validated method of assessing and documenting facility operations, collecting results from microbial and particulate tests, as well as analyzing and trending the data. This ensures environmental control systems are operating as intended and provides valuable insight into their effectiveness. MIMS also provides total traceability and an automatic alert system. With the software installation, each customer’s database will be configured to interface with the VITEK 2 Compact.
“The combination of CSSC’s MIMS technology and bioMérieux’s VITEK 2 Compact provides a complete data management solution for our customers in the pharmaceutical industry,” said Alexandre Mérieux, Corporate Vice President, Industrial Microbiology. “Environmental testing is critical to the production of safe, high quality pharmaceuticals and we are pleased to partner with an industry leader such as CSSC.”
“bioMérieux’s expertise in the microbiology laboratory and success with the VITEK 2 Compact, along with its dynamic sales organization, affords us with an unparalleled channel of distribution for the MIMS application,” said George M. Levinson, President of CSSC. “Our comprehensive software system complements bioMérieux’s position as a global market leader and total solution provider for the pharmaceutical industry.”
About bioMérieux
Advancing Diagnostics to Improve Public Health
A world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics for over 40 years, bioMérieux is present in more than 150 countries through 35 subsidiaries and a large network of distributors. In 2006, revenues reached €1.037 billion with 83% of sales outside of France.
bioMérieux provides diagnostic solutions (reagents, instruments, software), which determine the source of disease and contamination to improve patient health and ensure consumer safety. Our products are used for diagnosing infectious diseases and providing high medical value results for cardiovascular emergencies and cancer screening and monitoring. They are also used for detecting microorganisms in agri-food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. bioMérieux is listed on Eurolist by Euronext. For more information, visit http://www.biomerieux.com/.
About Compliance Software Solutions Corporation
Compliance Software Solutions Corp. has provided data management applications to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries for more than 8 years. Our software solutions are used to effectively and efficiently monitor and control essential areas of production. The MIMS® is currently being used to manage data in a number of manufacturing sites throughout the U.S. and parts of Europe. CSSC is a privately held corporation. For more information, visit http://www.csoftsol.com/.
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