Sanigen Announces Partnership with Illumina on Food Safety and Microbiology Business Development in South Korea
July 14, 2021 at 03:00 am EDT
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Sanigen has announced that it will become a channel partner in the region for Illumina, the genome sequencing company. The partners will work together to deliver Illumina's NGS platform technology to the food safety and microbiology sector in South Korea. Sanigen is a specialist food safety company in South Korea and serves the market with PCR kits and NGS panels. Sanigen also provides NGS analysis (sample preparation, sequencing and bioinformatic) services for customer samples, based on its well-established foodborne pathogen database. Sanigen, together with Illumina, is developing NGS panels that can rapidly detect 16 types of foodborne pathogen from around 400 samples. The panels will be available in third quarter, 2021. The companies believe that the partnership will accelerate the application of NGS technology to the food safety market, improving safety levels.
Illumina, Inc. specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and biological function. The group's products are for genomic research centers, pharmaceutical companies, university institutions, clinical research organizations, and biotechnology companies. Net sales break down by source of income as follows:
- product sales (84.1%): tools and instruments for sequencing, genotyping, genetic expression, etc.;
- sales of services (15.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (52.4%), Americas (3.6%), Europe (25.3%), Asia/Pacific/Middle East/Africa (10.2%) and China/Taiwan/Hong Kong (8.5%).