Pioneering Sustainable Innovation
in Immuno & Molecular Dx Reagents
At Meridian, we believe sustainability starts with us. Throughout our entire organization, we are committed to integrating sustainability principles and ethical practices into our business model. Our goal is to provide innovative, eco-conscious and cost-effective products to our customers, empowering them with solutions to increase global access to their tests, reduce waste, and enhance efficiency in their supply chains and assay workflows as they progress toward their sustainability goals.
Meridian offers leading innovative, eco-conscious products designed to enhance your operational efficiency and sustainability.
With increasing pressure to integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) sustainability into their operations, diagnostic manufacturers require innovative solutions in raw materials and reagents to reduce the carbon footprint of diagnostic assays (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c04039). In response, Meridian has curated a comprehensive portfolio of eco-conscious and cost-efficient solutions designed to meet specific challenges like:
- Overcoming Cold Chain Logistics Barriers:
Glycerol-free and high-concentration reagents enable the development of ambient temperature stable
assays, eliminating cold chain logistics, reducing energy consumption, and minimizing packaging needs. - Streamlining Workflows:
Extraction-free and low-temperature solutions streamline workflows, eliminate multiple extraction steps,
reduce energy use, and increase throughput for faster turnaround times. - Providing Animal-Free Alternatives:
Animal-free recombinant alternatives for immunoassays, offer greater versatility and reproducibility, ensuring
supply continuity while addressing ethical concerns.
Finding Ways to Adopt Sustainable Solutions
Meridian's product development strategy focuses on sustainable, cost-effective solutions. With a robust pipeline of upcoming
product launches, Meridian aims to boost their partners’ competitive advantage while supporting their objectives in attaining a
more ethical and sustainable future. Sustainable innovative solutions start with us.
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Reduce Waste
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Increase Efficiency
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Expand Accessibility
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Use Eco-Conscious Reagents
Achieving Waste Reduction
Diagnostic assays produce 10% of all medical waste, most of which is hazardous and cannot be reused or recycled. This waste comes from the assays themselves, specimen collection, and the shipping and storage of reagents.
Meridian’s innovative master mixes and enzymes achieve waste reduction by providing:
- High-concentration formats
Reduces the volume of reagents, enabling miniaturization. - Lyo-Ready and Air-Dryable™ options
Provides options for creating ambient-temperature stable assays. - Inhibitor-tolerant mixes
Ensures highly sensitive direct detection. - Specimen-specific solutions
Supports self-sampling using saliva, urine, stool, and capillary blood.
Strategies to Improve Efficiency
Simplifying assay development and enhancing workflow efficiency can reduce an assay’s ecological footprint and lower costs. Innovative, sustainable solutions offer a competitive edge and reduce CO2 emissions.
Meridian’s innovative master mixes and enzymes improve efficiencies by providing:
- Ready-to-use solutions
Saves time and resources and only add primers and probes. - Extraction-free mixes
Allows direct detection in crude specimens. - Isothermal applications
Enables decentralized testing through access to point-of-care. - Ambient-stable formats
Eliminates refrigeration for shipping and storage.
Ways to Expand Accessibility
Expanding assay accessibility is essential for equitable healthcare. Barriers include high costs, the need for technical expertise or expensive equipment, and supply chain issues like cold-chain requirements.
Meridian’s innovative master mixes and enzymes expand accessibility by providing:
- Isothermal applications
Enables decentralized testing through access to point-of-care. - Ambient-temperature stable
Eliminates refrigeration for shipping and storage. - Specimen-specific solutions
Supports self-sampling using saliva, urine, stool, and capillary blood.
Benefits to Eco-Conscious Reagents
Eco-conscious reagents optimize resource use and minimize hazardous waste, allowing labs to significantly reduce their carbon footprint.
Meridian’s innovative eco-conscious reagents are:
- Animal-free
Eliminates the unethical use of animal-derived components, improving the continuity of supply - Point-of-care focused
Consumes less energy by utilizing lower temperature requirements - Ambient-temperature stable
Removes the need for energy-intensive refrigeration. - Inhibitor-tolerant
Removes the need for extraction, enabling highly sensitive direct detection.