InnovaPrep

Dave Alburty, CEO

Inside the massive, stainless steel tanks that hold thousands of gallons of beer, even a tiny unwanted bacterium could turn the brew into an acrid, undrinkable slop. Despite brewer’s yeasts being their best friends, spoilage organisms can easily become their worst nightmare. Most brewing companies today report 20 percent or more loss of revenue because of cross-contamination during the brewing stage, and they have to destroy whole batches of sour or exploding beer. Even though there have been traditional microbiological plating techniques to help brewers test microbial contamination of their brews, the processes are incredibly time-consuming. Microbes could be multiplying unseen in brewer’s products or the brewing environments, while microbiologists wait for the results to show up on petri dishes. And, with breweries, like most businesses, time is money. To speed up the turnaround time for easy and fast detection of bacterial and wild yeast contamination, Missouri-based InnovaPrep offers an extensive array of microbial collection and concentration tools. InnovaPrep is engaged in product development, sales, and out-licensing of a group of novel tools for modern microbiology.

InnovaPrep’s novel tools provide the critical macro-to-micro interface between real world samples and the input volumes of modern molecular methods for analysis.

They increase sensitivity and enable a faster, easier, and more efficient means of delivering the most highly-concentrated sample possible for its subsequent analysis in a variety of biomonitoring applications. The company leverages its patented technology and tools for efficient collection and concentration of biological particles from a specific environment. “Our first-of-its-kind native technology enables the promise of rapid detection of microbial contamination in ways that have not been available before,” asserts Dave Alburty, CEO of InnovaPrep. Notably, the company’s Wet Foam Elution process serves as the backbone for the other tools developed by InnovaPrep and enables instant recovery of particles from filters, membranes, surfaces, and objects. The primary utility of this process is to improve the way biological samples—especially dilute samples—are collected and prepared for analysis. The Wet Foam Elution process is similar to how liquid would be used to rinse particles off a membrane filter tangentially. However, it is much more efficient than liquid rinsing as it offers volume expansion, bubble dynamics, and exfoliating action, along with increased viscosity.

Adjacently, the Concentrating PipetteTM —one of the widely used tools developed by InnovaPrep—provides a rapid concentration of pathogens, spoilage organisms, and other particulate contaminants. Users can screen their products for quality in a single shift, thus saving money for labor, product hold times, and wasted packaging in the case of a recall. Moreover, the one-pass method of Concentrating Pipette offers robust filtration using high-flow single-use pipette tips followed by instant sample recovery into a clean buffer through the patented Wet Foam Elution process.

In addition to the Concentrating Pipette, InnovaPrep has also developed ACD-200 Bobcat—a lightweight, portable, dry filter air sampler with a unique rapid filter elution kit. The innovative air sampler is being extensively used in the food and beverage industry to monitor product contamination by aerosol. The product has also found its usage in biosurveillance, agricultural, and animal health applications.

Today, even NASA is leveraging InnovaPrep’s rapid sample collection and delivery technologies. The space agency is using InnovaPrep tools to protect the water supply on the international space station and is developing water purification process monitoring tools for long-term space missions like the Mars 2030 exploration program.

InnovaPrep is now developing similar capabilities to help detect viral contamination. Besides, the company is also increasing its manufacturing capacity to be able to facilitate over a million contamination tests in a given year. “For the coming months, we are poised to enhance our product portfolio and strengthen our existing product offerings for a healthy future,” concludes Alburty.

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InnovaPrep

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Dave Alburty, CEO

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InnovaPrep makes tools for modern microbiology that allow faster, easier and better quality testing through rapid concentration. The CP Select™ can concentrate beer spoilers from up to 355mL in minutes for rapid analysis with PCR or other methods. Beverage products can be screened for quality in a single shift allowing products to get to market up to 5 days faster and it saves labor. If your goal is to move to one-day QA, the InnovaPrep method provides the best possible sensitivity to do it.

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Bioz Inc. Has Partnered With InnovaPrep to Bring Scientific Research-Based Product Validation to InnovaPrep’s Customers

PALO ALTO - Bioz, Inc., announce its partnership with InnovaPrep, a prominent supplier of innovative sample collection and concentration solutions that transform microbiological workflows to detect threats faster, easier, and better. InnovaPrep has been supporting industry, public health labs, academia, and government labs since 2009.
This new partnership benefits InnovaPrep's customers by harnessing Bioz's product-specific article suggestions directly on its website's product pages through Bioz Badges, dynamic web-based digital citation widgets. The Bioz widgets display detailed structured product information, presenting snippets from scientific articles, images, tables, and figure legends, allowing InnovaPrep's customers to access relevant scientific use cases in real time. Bioz Badges also display objective Bioz Stars scores that highlight each product's track record of success in past scientific research, calculated by algorithmically analyzing a diverse set of parameters, such as product mentions, article publication date, and journal impact factor, among others.
"We are extremely excited about our partnership with InnovaPrep," said Dr. Karin Lachmi, co-founder and CRO of Bioz. "InnovaPrep's products are improving workflows and producing effective research. This partnership surfaces the latest relevant product citations and applications directly onto InnovaPrep's product pages, allowing researchers to make data-driven purchasing decisions."
"Bioz Badges seamlessly integrate into our website, and they have been extremely user-friendly for researchers," said Kathi Ruegsegger, President at InnovaPrep, also adding that "Bioz Badges have proven to be a valuable internal resource for our team, offering a reliable means to source product citation data."
Bioz Badges are now available on InnovaPrep's website, and researchers can benefit from this valuable resource immediately. Visit InnovaPrep to explore its broad range of products, and to discover Bioz Badges, that will help guide your selection of optimal research products.

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