DIAMIDEX & BLC Webinar – Improve your Productivity with Legionella Pneumophila Rapid Method

 The Webinar entitled “Improve your Productivity with Legionella Pneumophila Rapid Method – A MICA Advance case study by BLC Macau” was organized by DIAMIDEX and BLC Macau on 28^th May 2025.

Ms. Veronica Ponnuthurai (Business Mager, Diamidex) was MC and Dr. Fanny Marie Passot (R&D Project Leader, Diamidex) was speaker. Mr. Leo Choi (District Manager, BLC Macau and Lab Manager, A&R Macau) was guest speaker to share case study using MICA Advance Legionella system.

Dr. Fanny Marie Passot was the first speaker and she firstly introduced Diamidex company background.

Then she shared their vision that making the invisible visible faster to make your world safer.

After that she mentioned MICA solution for different microorganism test with comparison between standard methods and Diamidex methods. They had shorter much testing time.

Dr. Fanny Passot introduced their breakthrough using Machine Learning to detect and identify microcolonies.

Finally, she compared MICA Legionella system with ISO 11731 workflow that reduced time to result from “7-14 days” to 2 days!

The overall comparison summary was showed. 

Mr. Leo Choi was the guest speaker and his topic named “How MICA Advance Legionella Improve Our Productivity”. 

In the beginning, Leo summarized his talk including purpose, process and payoff.

He comparison the cost efficiency from conventional method and MICA method in terms of steps, incubator space, sample handling limit, skill requested. MICA Advance Legionella demonstrated excellence performance.

After that he shared his daily workflow that one technician using MICA Advance Legionella to do 24 samples as well as E. Coli & HPC samples.

Finally, Leo concluded that they were able to handle 5 times more samples than original method and decreased the manpower need. 

At the end, Ms. Veronica Ponnuthurai wrapped up the webinar.

Lastly, Q&A session, Mr. Leo Choi answered some technical and practical questions.

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