Alexeter Technologies LLC Announces a Strategic Alliance with Tetracore, Inc.

Source: Alexeter Technologies

04.25.00 |  Alexeter Technologies, LLC (Wheeling, IL) announced reaching an agreement with Tetracore, Inc. (Rockville, MD) to serve as Tetracore's exclusive distributor of the BioThreat Alert™ (Biological Threat Alert) Screening Test Strips, the first widely available, commercial testing system for rapid, on-site detection of biological warfare agents.  The BioThreat Alert Test Strips will be marketed primarily to domestic emergency personnel, such as local, state and federal emergency & law enforcement officials, who are the first on the scene at potential bioterrorism events.

The potential for domestic terrorism involving toxic biological agents has been of tremendous concern among both federal and local law enforcement officials.  Until the introduction of the BioThreat Alert Test Strips, government officials had no rapid, on-site means to test unknown samples for the presence of threatening biological agents.  Previously, local officials had to wait until test results were reported by centralized federal and state laboratories, a process that typically takes 12 - 48 hours.  With the BioThreat Alert System [now known as the Guardian Reader System™], local emergency responders can obtain a preliminary screening test result within minutes of their arrival on the scene.  With the preliminary test results, local officials will be able to make more informed decisions about the mode and extent of the emergency response.

Also currently under final development is a portable electronic reader which will work together with the BioThreat Alert Test Strips to provide increased confidence of test results, even under more challenging field test conditions.  Alexeter expects to make initial deliveries of the Guardian BioThreat Alert Reader [now  known as the Guardian Reader™] by September of 2000.

Alexeter Technologies, LLC - a privately held company - develops, manufactures and distributes time-critical technologies for use in collection, detection and identification of unknown biological agents in the environment.