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Company Profile

 * Animal Blood, Plasma and Serum * Microbiology Quality Control Organisms *
* Microbiological Diagnostic Kits *

TCS Biosciences are based in North Buckinghamshire. The TCS Group specialises in the manufacture and distribution of reagents, quality control products, and test kits for use in the Clinical, Food, Water and Pharmaceutical sectors.

Key areas of focus are:

• Microbiology
• Haematology
• Parasitology
• Cell Culture 
• Histopathology
• Serology
• Virology
• Immunology  

In the company's 40 year history we have established ourselves as Europe's foremost supplier of animal blood and sera for microbiological use. We have pioneered innovative collection and processing techniques resulting in product of the highest quality while ensuring the health and welfare of our donor animals.

Our commitment to continuous improvement, quality monitoring and customer care has ensured the ongoing growth of  TCS Group and facilitated expansion beyond our core business in the Clinical sector. Today we are a prominent figure in the UK Water Industry and European Pharmaceutical market, our current focus is the development of our product range within Food Microbiology.

All products and services are supplied under cGMP guidelines and a quality system registered to ISO9001:2000 thus meeting the technical specifications and regulatory standards required by our customers. Our first generation quality control bacteria (Selectrol®) is tested for a range of identification and characterisation attributes in our UKAS accredited testing laboratory number 2496.

The Group is focused on developing our presence and product portfolio in each market sector, without compromising our core business value . . . . Quality.

Water Sciences

• Cryptosporidium and Giardia Specialists
• High Quality Innovative Products
• Customer Focused

We are dedicated to finding and supplying high quality innovative products for microbiology testing and quality control.

TCS Biosciences was the first to be granted Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) approval to supply a fluorescent monoclonal antibody stain for the detection of Cryptosporidium and Giardia. We are proud to work in partnership with Cellabs (Pty) Ltd. and Biotechnology Frontiers (Pty) Ltd. distributing products throughout Europe.

TCS Biociences is committed to delivering outstanding customer service and proactively meets customer needs with innovative products. Isolate® Cryptosporidium is a new product developed in response to UK regulatory needs. Isolate® incorporates new technology to bring the very first semi-automated immunomagnetic separation (IMS) of Cryptosporidium oocysts in environmental water samples.

Product Overview

• Animal Blood Products
• Donor Animal Blood - high quality horse and sheep blood products

• Animal Serum and Plasma
• Serum - Donor and Fetal Bovine Serum and Donor Horse Serum
• Plasma

• Clinical Microbiology
• Microbiological Dyes & Stains - Over 250 wet and dry dyes, stains and reagents

• Microbiological Quality Control Products
• Selectrol® - Viable micro-organisms used for quality control and testing applications
• BioBall^TM - An Exact Number of CFU Per Plate.

• Food, Water and Industrial Microbiology
• Bacticount - Monitors work surfaces and fluids for bacterial and fungal contamination
• Microbiological Dyes & Stains - Over 250 wet and dry dyes, stains and reagents
• Selectrol® - Viable micro-organisms used for quality control and testing applications
• Water Sciences

• Complement Fixation Antigens and Reagents
  
• Diagnostic Kits - for the Detection of Infectious Diseases
• Malaria
• OptiMAL-IT - Rapid, sensitive malaria test
• Cellabs ELISA - Specific detection of HRP-2 in whole blood or serum
• SICKLE-CHECK - Quick test to detect the presence of reduced sickle haemoglobin
• Gonocheck II - Provides cost effective confirmation of Neisseria organisms
• Emerging tropical diseases - Cellabs immunodiagnostic kits for infectious and tropical diseases

• Histopathology Products
• Microbiological Dyes & Stains - Over 250 wet and dry dyes, stains and reagents
• Histological Waxes - Pastillated pellets available at a range of melting points
• Embedding and Mounting Media, Fixatives, Chemicals

• Lectins - A comprehensive range of pure and conjugated lectins:
• Lectins and Lectin Conjugate
• Colloidal Gold
• Affinity Chromatography Products
• Polyclonal Antisera and Conjugates
• Affinity Purified Antibodies and Conjugates

• Product Certification
• Print Selectrol® QC certificates for your batch of product

• Water Sciences
• Monoclonal Diagnostic Tests
• Crypto-Cel
• Giardia-Cel
• Crypto/Giardia-Cel - Monoclonal antibodies for the simultaneous detection of Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts in faecal and environmental specimens.
• EasyStain^TM - IFA Reagent Against Cryptosporidium and Giardia.

• Quality Control
• EasySeed^TM - Standard control product containing a known number of gamma-irradiated Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts
• EasyPC - Positive control for oocyst staining and counting
• ColorSeed^TM - Internal quality control for Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts
• Bulk Cryptosporidium Oocysts and Giardia Cysts

• Automated IMS Test
• Isolate® Cryptosporidium - Unique immunomagnetic separation (IMS) of Cryptosporidium oocysts in environmental water samples