BioAnalyt

BioAnalyt (BioAnalyt GmbH) is a privately held product-innovation company based in Teltow, Germany. The company focuses on developing, manufacturing, and marketing portable rapid test kits. Being sold under the name iCheck, the kits measure the concentration of vitamin A, total carotenoids, iron, or iodine in food and biological fluids. The test kits are easy to use, provide quantitative results within several minutes time. Displaying an innovative alternative to the established laboratory methods. In addition to products, BioAnalyt provides a broad spectrum of services connected with control of food quality or food fortification; which analyses of large-scale coverage studies in developing countries.
History.
BioAnalyt was founded in 1999 by Professor Dr. Florian J. Schweigert, head of the Department of Nutrition at the University of Potsdam and internationally recognized scientist with more than 200 scientific publications. Schweigert developed and is the patent holder of the test kit technology, the roots of which go back to several decades of research work, in the field of fat-soluble vitamins and nutritional biomarkers. BioAnalyt has developed a patented test kit, consisting of a portable measuring instrument and specially designed reagent vials which enable a valid proof of the nutritional content in food and nutrient supply of people within a few minutes. Once started as a team of two, currently BioAnalyt has over 20 employees. It successfully sells its products to more than 80 countries.
Public Private Partnerships.
BioAnalyt partners with various NGOs such as Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) , Helen Keller International (HKI), GIZ, Iodine Global Network (IGN), and leading vitamin producers such as BASF and DSM to improve access to nutritious foods in areas with high rates of malnutrition by providing efficient tools for program monitoring and quality control.
Patents.
BioAnalyt's founder and managing director Prof. Dr. Florian J. Schweigert is a holder of 3 national and international patents for the technology the companies products are based.:
Determination of biological material ingredients
Patent number: 8501430
METHOD FOR THE EXTRACTION AND DETECTION OF FAT-SOLUBLE COMPONENTS FROM BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
Application number: 20120156794
Determination of biological material ingredients
Application number: 20110256566
Products.
BioAnalyt's product focus is portable analytical solutions for fat-soluble vitamins as well as microelements including iron, iodine and zinc:
Awards.
In the recent years BioAnalyt received the following prizes:
2015 - Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award (Germany)
2015 - BITC Unilever Global Development Award, Finalist (Globally)
2014 - Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award (Germany)
2014 - Top 100 Award, Category Innovation (Germany)
2014 - Innovationspreis Brandenburg – prize winner in the category “food industry” (Germany)
2008 - Innov’Space (France)
2007 - Techologietransferpreis Berlin-Brandenburg (Germany)
Further reading.
In January 2015, BioAnalyt was featured in the innovative German business magazine Brand eins with an article on the topic of "self-determination". BioAnalyt products were also mentioned in following publications: