EKF Launches Pocket-Sized Lactate Monitor for Sports Performance Monitoring at Medica

EKF Diagnostics, a global in-vitro diagnostics company, is launching its new Lactate Scout 4 hand-held lactate analyzer for fast and accurate sports performance monitoring at Medica 2018 this week in Dü EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc, which includes the EKF Diagnostics, Stanbio Laboratory, and DiaSpect brands, develops, produces, and distributes point-of-care analyzers used to detect and manage diabetes and anemia, and also in sports and maternal medicine. EKF products are sold in more than 100 countries worldwide, through a network of specialist distributors. EKF Diagnostics designs and manufactures diagnostic devices, as well as distributes rapid test kits for infectious diseases and pregnancy. The EKF analyzer range is used widely in general practice surgeries, pharmacies, blood banks, sports clinics, hospitals, and laboratories for glucose, lactate, hemoglobin, hematocrit and HbA1c measurement. EKF, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Stanbio Laboratory (Boerne, Texas), manufactures a range of clinical chemistry reagents, as well as associated analyzers. In addition, EKF Life Sciences (Elkhart, Ind.) manufactures enzymes used in reagent development and also provides contract fermentation facilities.