Micrylium Laboratories Inc.

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Micrylium Laboratories is a privately owned manufacturer that began in the Infection Control field in May of 1994. The name is derived from Microbiology and the ending “ylium ” is to signify value. Laboratories is essential to the name to indicate the company has a major research (Microbiology, Materials Science & Immunology) and service (Analytical) direction. The head office and plant is located at 5000-M Dufferin Street at Steeles in Toronto. Sanofi-Aventis-Connaught Laboratories and York University are in the area, and University of Toronto and the MARS Biotechnology group is 25 minutes away by subway link. The facility occupies just under 14,000 square feet, and is divided almost equally between a Lecture Facility (Micrylium Centre), Manufacturing, Administrative, Customer Service and Storage of raw materials, packaging and finished goods . Micrylium Laboratories presently has manufacturing capabilities as a fully compliant FDA Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) manufacturer. Manufacturing capabilities are filling of liquids in pouch formats (20 to 500 mL) Liquid bottle and Bag-in-Box foil packaging is done in 500 mL to 6 L quantities. ISO 9001 certification was achieved in June of 2001. Our laboratory enables us to provide services such as Association of Analytical Chemists (AOAC) disinfectant testing, water testing, sterilization monitoring and United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) Microbial Limits (sterility) product testing for Micrylium and other manufacturers. The lab is fully equipped with Gas, Liquid and Ion Chromatography with validated methods. Microbiological experiments are conducted in a special Bio-Containment centre. It seems a long time ago now, but back in 1987, a concept was born from a very ordinary idea. The idea was to create disinfectants that had kill times significantly less than 10 minutes. Then and only then would disinfection between clients or patients become a reality rather than an economic compromise. Well, ideas are cheap. A friend once said: “If someone gives you an idea and expects to be paid for it, give them a penny or even a looney immediately and you ’ll certainly be even ”. What he tried to say was: it is a very long drive to bring product from the idea towards reality. The driving of the idea is certainly difficult. Sometimes there aren ’t even roads to follow. When there are “metaphorical roads ”, they could be curving, slippery, fiscally un-supported or even government obstructed. In driving the idea of faster microbial kill times, the SurfOL concept was born. The fastest product of the group was 3 minutes against TB. The success was in suppressing the evaporation of ethanol. Remembering at that time there was pressure from marketing to include phenols in the formulations because “everyone else has them ”. Contrarily there were the lab arguments from our Microbiologists that phenols were not necessary to obtain a rapid TB or viral kill AND WERE CARCINOGENS! When we presented a survey of the environmental impact and toxicity of disinfectants at a research meeting in 1992, the next stage of driving ideas began.

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