Biomerica, Inc. announced the launch of its InFoods IBS test. The first patient samples have been processed. Following the successful completion and positive results from the Company's InFoods IBS clinical trial (run at several prominent centers including Mayo Clinic, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc. - a Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital, Houston Methodist Hospital, and the University of Michigan), Biomerica has received significant interest from Gastroenterology (GI) physicians who would like to order the InFoods IBS test for their patients immediately.

In the data presented at the ACG annual meeting for the Abdominal Pain Intensity (API) responder endpoint of >30% improvement in pain, patients with IBS Constipation and IBS Mixed in the treatment diet arm had a statistically significant improvement over patients in the placebo diet arm (p-value of 0.0246). The improvement for patients in the treatment arm versus the placebo arm is considered clinically significant and is similar and, in some cases, better than the current drugs in the market. The total direct and indirect cost of IBS has been estimated at $30 billion annually in the United States alone.

The InFoods IBS test involves a simple blood collection procedure and is designed to assess a patient's above normal immunoreactivity to specific foods. Instead of difficult to manage broad dietary restrictions, physicians can now use the InFoods IBS information to make targeted, patient-specific recommendations about specific foods that, when removed from the diet, may alleviate IBS symptoms such as pain, bloating, diarrhea and constipation.