Neogen Acquires BioLumix

(RTTNews) - Neogen Corp. (NEOG) said Wednesday that it has acquired all the outstanding stock of BioLumix, Inc., an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based manufacturer and marketer of automated systems for the detection of microbial contaminants.

The BioLumix business will be consolidated with Neogen's closely related Soleris® technology, which is widely used for the detection of spoilage organisms in several food industries, as well as the nutraceutical market. The Soleris system was the first in the industry used for the detection of microbial contamination based upon an innovative application of well-accepted classical microbiology.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.