Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Myron Sasser describes his Newark-based company as a simple toolmaker. Except the tools developed by MIDI Inc. over the last 28 years have been used to stem the tide of hospital-based infections and tuberculosis, improve agricultural production around the world, identify anthrax in the U.S. Senate office buildings and track down biological weapons in Iraq. “They didn’t find any on that last one, but that’s not our fault,” the 80-year-old entrepreneur said with a wry smile. “The system works.” That “system” is a series of software packages, sold under the brand name Sherlock. Used exclusively in combination with an instrument called a gas chromatograph manufactured by Agilent Technologies in Greenville, MIDI’s software is able to quickly and reliably identify a variety of microbes and various chemicals, leading to a wide array of uses. Later this year, the company will roll out two new software packages, one designed to analyze food products, such as the purity of olive oil, and the other to help law enforcement agencies solve arson cases. “If there is a fire, the fire investigators will go out and collect samples of the burned materials that are taken to one of over a thousand labs in the world […]
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