IVD-Compliant Diagnostic Devices

New laboratory products are compliant with the European Union (EU) in vitro diagnostic (IVD) directive designed to improve performance and safety.

The IVD directive gives users and patients a high level of protection and ensures that medical devices attain performance levels originally attributed to them by the manufacturer. The new CE-marked line of products, from Thermo Lab Systems (Vantaa, Finland), includes a comprehensive range of air-displacement pipettes and tips as well as microplate instrumentation.

The Finnpipette Digital IVD product line consists of single channel and multichannel pipettes designed for manual pipetting in a clinical laboratory. These digital pipettes are to be used in conjunction with the Finntip IVD line of both standard and filter tips.

A microplate photometer called Multiskan EX IVD is designed for measuring absorbance from microplates and strips in a 96-well plate format, providing first line data for further analyses. The Wellwash IVD is a microplate washer for 96-well plates. Both are intended for IVD use in routine laboratory tasks as well as in research.

Thermo Lab Systems is a business of Thermo Electron Corp. (Waltham, MA, USA), a global supplier of analytic instruments for clinical, life science, environmental, and industrial laboratories.