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Our laboratories, pilot plants and production facility are designed to work with microorganisms up to biosafety level 2 and genetically modified microorganisms belonging to Class 1, in accordance with EU Council Directive 98/81/EC.
The fermentation facility includes fermenters of different size, from the laboratory scale (1 and 15 litres) to the pilot (150 litres) and pre-industrial scale (1.500 litres), equipped with temperature, pH, pO2, air, pressure, stirring controls and regulations.
The downstream equipment includes centrifugals, microfilters, ultrafilters, reverse osmosis, filter-driers and bell filters. Chromatography and lyophilisation tests can be performed on a laboratory scale.
The chemical and microbiological laboratories are equipped with HPLC, UV-VIS and FT-IR spectrophotometers for the analysis and identification of components, Atomic Absorption spectrophotometer for metal trace analysis, microscopes, static and orbital incubators.
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