NEW YORK – OraSure Technologies announced this week it has sold its cryosurgical systems business to Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania-based CryoConcepts for an aggregate purchase price of $12 million in cash. OraSure’s President and CEO Stephen Tang said in a statement that the sale represents a key part of the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based company’s growth strategy, as it prioritizes its product portfolio and focuses resources on growing its core molecular solutions and infectious disease businesses through both organic growth and acquisition.
As a result of the sale, OraSure lowered its third quarter revenue guidance from $39.0 million to $40.5 million to a revised guidance of $37.5 million to $39.0 million. It also raised its Q3 EPS guidance from $.04 to $.05 per share to $.19 to $.20, with $.16 per share attributable to the estimated gain on the sale of the business.
For full-year 2019, the company is now guiding $160 million to $165 million in net revenues, compared to previous guidance of $165 million to $170 million, and EPS of $.36 to $.38 rather than $0.24 to $0.26 as it had previously guided.
Fitch Ratings has upgraded Bio-Rad Laboratories’ long-term issuer-default (IDR) from BBB- to BBB, reflecting the firm’s improved EBITDA and margins.
Biomerica said this week that the Republic of Colombia Ministry of Health and Social Protection Institute National Surveillance of Drugs and Food has cleared the company's EZ Detect colorectal screening test. The test can now be imported to and sold in Colombia. EZ Detect is a home-based test to detect fecal occult blood. A change in color in the test's pad indicates the presence of blood in stool. The pad is then flushed away. Irvine, California-based Biomerica also added a sales and marketing director for Europe and South America.
Neogen this week announced that its NeoSeek genetic test for Shiga toxin-producing strains of Escherichia coli has received validation from AOAC, previously the Association of Official Analytical Chemists. The food safety test, which targets 89 genes for detection and identification of pathogens known to cause human illness, can now be used by countries or companies that must meet US import guidelines.
Lansing, Michigan-based Neogen teamed up on the validation process with Meat & Livestock Australia. In addition to performing the test at its Lincoln, Nebraska lab, Neogen will also do testing at its Australian lab in Gatton, Queensland.
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