Hygiena to acquire DuPont’s food safety diagnostics business
DuPont Diagnostics provides innovative, science-based microbial detection and monitoring products.
Hygiena, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company based in Camarillo, Calif., announced plans to acquire the global food safety diagnostics business from DuPont Nutrition & Health, Wilmington, Del.
The acquisition includes all of DuPont Diagnostics business assets, including the BAX and RiboPrinter Systems and associated test kits; a global and technically trained sales, R&D and manufacturing organization; and in-house production capacity. The business was formed by DuPont in 1992 as Qualicon; Hygiena will retain the Qualicon name.