Biolytix – Biolytix AG

Biolytix, founded in 1998, is the leading Swiss service laboratory for molecular biological services. In Witterswil, only 12 km from Basel, the company is located in an area, where biotechnology is very well established.
The company is supported by a small group of private investors and is financially independent of any major customer or supplier. Biolytix employs 12 people including 6 scientists (mostly molecular biologists).
The customers of Biolytix are found in the food and feed industry, in the tobacco industry as well as in the pharmaceutical industry, research institutes and universities. Current customers are located all over the world.
The available expertise is especially the PCR and real-time PCR technology as well as immunological methods. These technologies are applied e.g. to identify and/or quantify genetically modified organisms, microorganisms (fungi, bacteria, viruses), animal or plant species, food allergens and more. The long experience in the PCR-technology also allows us to develop methods for costumers, offer consulting and trouble shooting to less experienced partners.
To secure the highest quality standards, biolytix has established a very strict quality assurance system. An accurate number of control analyses are always performed to guarantee the precision of all results. Additionally Biolytix is participating every year in national and international proficiency testing programmes and is accreditated under ISO/EN 17025.

Expertise in traceability

The development of analytical methods to check and trace the quality as well as the authenticity of agricultural products is one of the most important requests of the Biolytix customers. Biolytix has gained a lot of experience in food authenticity over the last years fulfilling the customer demands in the fields of the detection of genetically modified organisms where Biolytix employees are working in national and international working groups and Biolytix is also a partner in the FP6 project CO-EXTRA that is devoted to coexistence and traceability items linked to genetically modified organisms. In the field of species identification Biolytix is in member of a Swiss working group that develops methods for the identification of fraudulent addition of meat. In addition Biolytix is partner of a Swiss KTI (commission for technology and innovation) project where the goal is the determination of undesirable microorganisms in wine.

Activities in TRACE project

Task Management: Leader of the task “Characterisation of Cereal (farro della Garfagnana)”.

Molecular Biology method:

• Contribution to the finding of suitable markers for the identification and quantification of fraudulent addition of cereal into farro della Garfagnana.
• Improvement of a DNA extraction method of pollen

Project team

Contact

Peter Brodmann
Biolytix
Benkenstrasse 254
CH 4108 Witterswil
Switzerland

Tel : +41 (0)61 723 20 70
Fax : +41 (0)61 723 20 71
Email : Peter Brodmann
Web site : http://www.biolytix.ch

Staff

Dr. Peter Brodmann (Peter Brodmann)
Dr. Ralf Seyfarth (Ralf Seyfarth)