Our standard DIN18 5-100ml bottles in clear, blue, amber, green, matte black & white are extremely popular, however we appreciate some customers want their bottles and closures to be a little more unique. If you are looking for alternative bottles/closures for something more bespoke for your brand, please get in touch to discuss your requirements. [...]
Watch a short video of our automatic filling & labelling line in action, where we produce thousands of blood grouping vials a day in our ISO 8 Clean Room Facility. Our new filling line has enabled us to increase production scale up across our diagnostic reagents, improving the quality and efficiency of our services and [...]
CRP (C-reactive Protein) is an acute-phase, nonspecific marker of inflammation & infection and has been found to broadly correlate with disease severity and treatment response across a variety of infectious and non-infectious conditions1. Its rate of synthesis and secretion increases within hours of acute injury and may reach as high as 20 times the normal [...]
QCMD will use the universal biological sample stabilisation virusPHIX-P9™ as the matrix within its forthcoming SARS-CoV-2 antigen EQA pilot scheme. Studies have proven that virusPHIX-P9™ is both capable of inactivating SARS-CoV-2 as well as stabilizing clinical samples at ambient temperatures. Extensive testing at QCMD has shown that virusPHIX-P9™ is compatible with a variety of SARS-CoV-2 [...]
We are pleased to share our latest product brochure detailing our range of blood grouping (CE and non-CE), febrile antigens, latex agglutination and syphilis/TPHA screening tests. Download brochure here Rapid Labs have been producing high quality blood grouping reagents at our UK laboratory using British manufactured monoclonal cell lines for more than 12 years. We [...]
We are proud to announce that Rapid Labs has reduced the amount of plastic packaging in our Blood Grouping & Febrile Antigen 10 x 10ml Vial Kits by 97%, removing nearly 2 tonnes of plastic from circulation each year. Our kits were previously packaged in PVC trays (polyvinyl chloride) a durable yet highly unrecyclable plastic. [...]
We are proud to be partnering with a number of laboratories around the world for the validation of virusPHIX+™ as a viral transport medium for SARS-CoV-2 testing. Virus Inactivation A recent study from the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, UK concluded that virusPHIX+™ inactivates SARS-CoV-2 in as little as 10 minutes when treated at a 1:1 [...]
Congratulations to Gianmarco Raddi, PhD on the publication of ‘Mosquito cellular immunity at single-cell resolution’ in Science. The study discusses the discovery of new types of mosquito immune cells, including a rare cell type that could be involved in limiting malaria infection, as well as identifying molecular pathways implicated in controlling the malaria parasite. [...]
Rapid Labs have been awarded an £80,000 grant from Tendring District Council to increase production capacity at their biomedical facility in Little Bentley. The grant has contributed towards the cost of a new ISO 8 clean room facility, which is primarily being used for the manufacture and development of a novel RNA stabiliser and virus [...]
We are pleased to announce that Rapid Labs Ltd have been awarded membership of the British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA). BIVDA is the national industry association for the manufacturers and distributors of IVD products in the UK and currently represent more than 95% of the industry and over a hundred organisations ranging from British [...]