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ISO 9001: 2008 Certification
ISO 9001: 2008 Certification.
About this update from Proteome Sciences Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n Proteome Sciences plc \n\n ISO 9001 : 2008 Certification \n\n9th March, 2009 Proteome Sciences plc is pleased to announce that it has\nreceived ISO 9001:2008 certification from the German Society for Certification\nof Management Systems for its facilities in Frankfurt, Germany. This\ncertification covers Proteome Sciences' biomarker activities, rapid assay\ndevelopment, chemical and peptide synthesis and isobaric tagging development\nand production.\n\nThe Frankfurt facility was specifically designed to deliver a growing product\nline of isobaric Tandem Mass Tags® (TMT®) for quantitative mass spectrometry\nand to undertake biomarker programmes for customers.\n\nProteome Sciences now provides a comprehensive range of contract biomarker\nservices under ISO 9001: 2008 for discovery and validation of protein and\npeptide biomarkers, for rapid development of mass spectrometry based assays and\nfor the measurement of protein and peptide drugs and their metabolites in\npharmacokinetics.\n\nThe ISO 9001:2008 certification is an important milestone for the company in\nsupporting the global marketing strategy through the expansion of its high\nquality services and products based on the proprietary isobaric Tandem Mass Tag\n® technology and from PS Biomarker Services™ available through the ProteoSHOP®\nplatform.\n\nChristopher Pearce, Chief Executive Officer of Proteome Sciences, commented:\n\n\"We have made a considerable investment in time and effort to establish the\nhighest international standard of quality management systems into our biomarker\nservices and we are delighted to be one of the first companies globally to be\nawarded ISO 9001:2008 accreditation. This further underpins our compelling TMT®\nisobaric tagging products and allows us to more comprehensively exploit the\nfast growing field of biomarker qualification and mass spectrometry assays\nthrough the provision of ISO certified biomarker services for our customers.\n\n\"It is highly opportune timing to obtain the ISO 9001:2008 standard, with\nisobaric Tandem Mass Tag® technology at the point where pharmaceutical\ndevelopers can use biomarkers as part of the drug development decision-making\nprocess and when global regulators require increasing biomarker data to support\ndrug approval.\n\n\"Biomarkers are increasingly a key part of early disease detection, dru...