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products are used to assure the safety and quality of consumer products by monitoring production environments; raw materials and end products for bacterial contamination; and animal health in the dairy industry. Anatomical Pathology The company’s anatomical pathology offerings include a portfolio of products primarily for cancer diagnosis and medical research in histology, cytology, and hematology applications. These products include a range of instruments, consumables, and reagents for specimen collection and transport, tissue preparation, staining, and immunohistochemistry assays and controls. Reagent and consumable products include sample collection and preservation products used to ensure specimen integrity; tissue cassettes and reagents necessary for same-day specimen processing; blades and paraffin used to section tissue; and a range of stains. Also included are a line of immunohistochemistry antibodies, detection systems, ancillaries, and controls. The company also provides a range of anatomical pathology instruments, including cassette and slide labeling systems, which enable on-demand slide and cassette printing; tissue processors for same-day tissue-processing; reagent management and higher lab efficiency; embedding stations, microtomes, and cryostats used to section tissue; and automated staining and cover slip systems used for primary and immunohistochemistry staining. In cytology, the company offers low-speed centrifugation technology coupled with patented EZ cytofunnels to deposit a thin layer of cells onto a microscope slide to ensure cell capture and preservation of cell morphology. The company manufactures flat-sheet glass to produce medical disposable products, such as microscope slides, plates, cover glass, and microarray substrates serving the medical, diagnostics, and scientific communities. It also offers specialized hydrophobic, adhesive, and fluorescent slides through proprietary coating techniques. Healthcare Market Channel The company’s healthcare market channel offerings include a range of consumables, diagnostic kits and reagents, equipment, instruments, solutions, and services for hospitals, clinical laboratories, reference laboratories, physicians’ offices, and other clinical testing facilities. These products are manufactured by the company and third parties. Healthcare market products and solutions focus on the collection, transportation, and analysis of biological samples. Major product lines include anatomical pathology, molecular diagnostic, and cardiac risk management solutions; blood collection devices; and a portfolio of diagnostic testing kits. LABORATORY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES This segment offers everything needed for the laboratory. The company serves the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, government, and other research and industrial markets, as well as the clinical laboratory through four major businesses: laboratory equipment, laboratory consumables, research and safety market channel, and biopharma services. Laboratory Equipment The company’s laboratory equipment products are used primarily by pharmaceutical companies for drug discovery and development, and by biotechnology companies and universities for life science research to advance the prevention and cure of diseases and improve quality of life. This offering consists of equipment, accessories, and services for sample preparation, storage and protection, and analysis, with product categories, such as: Sample preparation and preservation equipment protects the company’s customers’ chemical and biological samples, and supports the growth of cells and organisms in optimal conditions, such as temperature, carbon dioxide, and humidity. This offering includes a range of incubators and other related products. Cold storage equipment, such as the company’s laboratory refrigerators and freezers, ultralow-temperature freezers, and cryopreservation storage tanks maintain samples in a cold environment to protect them from degradation. Centrifugation products are used to separate biological matrices and inorganic materials. The company’s range includes microcentrifuges, which are used primari