Profile: Fisher Scientific International, Inc. provides products & services to the scientific research community & clinical laboratories. We manufacture and distribute a wide array of diagnostic kits & reagents, equipment, instruments & other consumable products to hospitals & group-purchasing organizations, clinical laboratories, reference laboratories, physicians' offices as original equipment. We also offer outsourced manufacturing services for diagnostic reagents, calibrators & controls to the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.
The company has revenues of USD 50-100 Million, has ~3300 employees. NYSE:FSH (SEC Filings)
FDA Registration Number: 2431530
• Rotary Microtomes (FDA Code: IDO / 864.3010) Tissue processing equipment consists of devices used to prepare human tissue specimens for diagnostic histological examination by processing specimens through the various stages of decalcifying, infiltrating, sectioning, and mounting on microscope slides. |
• Round Hot Plate |
• Rubella CF Antigen (FDA Code: GON / 866.3510) Rubella virus serological reagents are devices that consist of antigens and antisera used in serological tests to identify antibodies to rubella virus in serum. The identification aids in the diagnosis of rubella (German measles) or confirmation of a person's immune status from past infections or immunizations and provides epidemiological information on German measles. Newborns infected in the uterus with rubella virus may be born with multiple congenital defects (rubella syndrome). |
• Sahli Pipette (FDA Code: GGX / 864.6160) A manual blood cell counting device is a device used to count red blood cells, white blood cells, or blood platelets. |
• Salmonella Spp Antiserum (FDA Code: GRM / 866.3550) |
• Sample Blood Collection Needles |
• Schiff Reagent Stain (FDA Code: HZT / 864.1850) Dye and chemical solution stains for medical purposes are mixtures of synthetic or natural dyes or nondye chemicals in solutions used in staining cells and tissues for diagnostic histopathology, cytopathology, or hematology. |
• Scientific Microhematocrit Centrifuges |
• Sedimentation Rate Tube (FDA Code: GHC / 864.6700) An erythrocyte sedimentation rate test is a device that measures the length of time required for the red cells in a blood sample to fall a specified distance or a device that measures the degree of sedimentation taking place in a given length of time. An increased rate indicates tissue damage or inflammation. |
• Self-Opening Iris Scissors |
• Serrated Jaws Carbide Jaw Needle Holder |
• Serum Prostatic Acid Phosphatase Test Kit |
• Serum Separation System |
• Shaker/Stirrer (FDA Code: JRQ / 862.2050) General purpose laboratory equipment labeled or promoted for a specific medical use is a device that is intended to prepare or examine specimens from the human body and that is labeled or promoted for a specific medical use. |
• Shielding Hypodermic Needle |
• Shigella Spp Antiserum (FDA Code: GNB / 866.3660) |
• Single use VacutainerT Needle Holder |
• Single-Use Needle Holder |
• Sinus Endoscopy, Needle Holders |
• Slide Dispenser |
• Slide Mailer Container |
• Slide Staining |
• Slide Warming Table (FDA Code: IEG / 864.3010) |
• Solvent, Alcohol |
• Spatulas |
• Specimen Collection Swabs |
• Sputum Collector |
• Stainless Steel Anaerobic Incubator |
• Stainless Steel Culture Tube Racks |
• Stainless Steel Hypodermic Needle |
• Stainless Steel Hypodermic Needle Tubing |
• Stainless Steel Iris Scissors |
• Stainless Steel Needle Holders |
• Standard Cyanomethemoglobin Reagent (FDA Code: GJZ / 864.7500) A whole blood hemoglobin assay is a device consisting or reagents, calibrators, controls, or photometric or spectrophotometric instrumentation used to measure the hemoglobin content of whole blood for the detection of anemia. This generic device category does not include automated hemoglobin systems. |
• Standard Needle Holders |
• Station Pipetting |
• Stationary Test Tube Incubator |
• Steam Sterilizers (FDA Code: FLE / 880.6880) A steam sterilizer (autoclave) is a device that is intended for use by a health care provider to sterilize medical products by means of pressurized steam. |
• Sterile Barrier Pipette Tips |
• Sterile Hypodermic Needle |
• Sterile Non-Barrier Pipette Tips |
• Sterile Specimen Container (FDA Code: FMH / 864.3250) A specimen transport and storage container, which may be empty or prefilled, is a device intended to contain biological specimens, body waste, or body exudate during storage and transport in order that the matter contained therein can be destroyed or used effectively for diagnostic examination. If prefilled, the device contains a fixative solution or other general purpose reagent to preserve the condition of a biological specimen added to the container. This section does not apply to specimen transport and storage containers that are intended for use as part of an over-the-counter test sample collection system for drugs of abuse testing. |
• Sterile Specimen Mailer and Storage Container (FDA Code: KDT / 864.3250) |
• Sterile Temperature Control Specimen Mailer and Storage Container (FDA Code: KDW / 864.3250) |
• Sterile Tongue Depressors |
• Stirrer |
• Stomach pH Electrode (FDA Code: FFT / 876.1400) A stomach pH electrode is a device used to measure intragastric and intraesophageal pH (hydrogen ion concentration). The pH electrode is at the end of a flexible lead which may be inserted into the esophagus or stomach through the patient's mouth. The device may include an integral gastrointestinal tube. |
• Straight Carbide Jaw Needle Holder |
• Streptolysin O (FDA Code: IBA / 864.4400) Enzyme preparations are products that are used in the histopathology laboratory for the following purposes: |
• Streptolysin O/Antistreptolysin-Titer Reagent |