Speeding Up Quality Testing of Swine Flu Vaccines

Synbiosis is pleased to announce that its innovative ProtoCOL 2 automatic zone measuring system can increase the speed of quality testing of H1N1 swine flu virus vaccine potency, ensuring vaccines can be rapidly delivered to healthcare professionals.

The ground-breaking ProtoCOL 2 takes zone measurement technology to a new level with its unique functionality and performance, and can generate results from a 16-zone SRD (Single Radial Immunodiffusion)
plate of swine flu vaccines in minutes. This means using a ProtoCOL 2, manufacturers can produce highly accurate and reproducible indications of vaccine potency up to ten times faster than time consuming and error-prone manual techniques.

The ergonomically designed ProtoCOL 2 has sliding doors to eliminate ambient light and the system’s unique red, blue and green LED lighting (patent pending) provides exceptional uniform illumination of SRD plates offering good contrast and reflection-free detection. The unit contains a high-resolution CCD camera that captures precise zone images in seconds and its new advanced Zone software can rapidly calculate a precise average diameter to provide an accurate indication of vaccine potency. These innovative features save hours of highly repetitive work to make ProtoCOL 2 ideal for increasing productivity in any GMP vaccine production facility.

The reproducible results can be automatically transferred with a one button click into the statistical analysis module and an image library is also created alongside. These files ensure producing professional reports for each batch of swine flu vaccine, accepted by major regulatory authorities, is a straightforward task.