Released on: March 25, 2008, 10:03 am

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Press Release Summary: PHILADELPHIA, Penn., March 25 2008 - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Inc., the world leader in serving science, will introduce new functionality to its
flagship SampleManager LIMS that facilitates compliance with the requirements of ISO
17025: 2005. Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS may be seen on booth 105/204, Hall
B1 at Analytica 2008, Messegelände Munich, from April 1 - 4, 2008. SampleManager
LIMS (Laboratory Information Management
System) is Thermo Fisher\'s premier product for industrial laboratories that
increases productivity, improves access to data, and ensures compliance with
regulatory requirements.

Press Release Body: News

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Informatics

Media Contact Information:
Name: Kath Darlington
Phone: +44 (0) 1477 539539
E-mail: thermofisher@scottpr.com
Website: www.scottpr.com

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Name: Patty McDermott
Phone: +1 781 287 4839
E-mail: patricia.mcdermott@thermofisher.com
Website: www.thermo.com/informatics

Thermo Fisher Scientific Demonstrates new SampleManager LIMS functionality for ISO
17025 at Analytica 2008

PHILADELPHIA, Penn., March 25 2008 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader
in serving science, will introduce new functionality to its flagship SampleManager
LIMS that facilitates compliance with the requirements of ISO 17025: 2005. Thermo
Scientific SampleManager LIMS may be seen on booth 105/204, Hall B1 at Analytica
2008, Messegelände Munich, from April 1 - 4, 2008. SampleManager LIMS (Laboratory
Information Management
System) is Thermo Fisher\'s premier product for industrial laboratories that
increases productivity, improves access to data, and ensures compliance with
regulatory requirements.

The 2005 release of ISO 17025, General Requirements for the Competence of Testing
and Calibration Laboratories, covers laboratories using standard, non-standard, and
laboratory-developed methods. It is applicable to all organizations performing tests
and/or calibrations, and laboratories where testing and/or calibration forms part of
inspection and product certification. This international standard is the accepted
standard for analytical laboratories in developing their management system for
quality, administrative and technical operations. Thermo Scientific SampleManager
LIMS benefits management by providing them with a centralized system to access data
and extract information, allowing them to more effectively manage their laboratory
operations. SampleManager LIMS provides evidence and documentation that
organizations are in compliance with ISO 17025.

Thermo Scientific SampleManager facilitates compliance in two principle areas of ISO
17025 (Section 4 Management Requirements, and Section 5 Technical Requirements).
SampleManager\'s enhanced functionality covers a broad range of requirements,
including validation of methods, instrument calibration; sampling, control of
non-conformance testing and reporting of results.

To respond to the Management Requirements of ISO 17025, SampleManager addresses the
security required for laboratories conducting testing in their \"permanent
facilities, at sites away from permanent facilities, or in associated temporary or
mobile facilities\", by providing for full security controls, including \"group
security\" which can be used to segregate work from different clients or in different
laboratory areas.

In addition, the laboratory\'s Quality System procedures are easily stored in
SampleManager LIMS for reference at any time by relevant personnel, meeting
requirements of ISO 17025 that each laboratory \"establish, implement and maintain a
quality system\", including a documentation of the scope of activities, all policies
and procedures, as well as results.

To properly meet ISO 17025 requirements regarding the \"control of non-conforming
testing and/or calibration work\", SampleManager has built-in functionality for
incident management and statistical analysis of both
calibration standards and sample results. SampleManager also automatically
maintains all electronic records and makes them available for either reviewing or
reporting, and has built-in archiving, which allows for the removal of older records
once their retention period has expired. Full audit trail facilities are standard
for SampleManager, allowing full traceability of the personnel and the procedures
that were entered. These built-in capabilities for SampleManager allow laboratories
to more easily review the lab\'s quality system by having ready access to all
incidents, corrective actions, non-conforming results and other events.

To address the Technical Requirements, SampleManager has built-in functionality to
handle environmental monitoring, a critical component of laboratory compliance with
ISO 17025. Within SampleManager, environmental monitoring of key areas of the
laboratory can be scheduled on a routine basis. Certain instrumentation can be
connected via SampleManager\'s Instrument Manager, and data collected and logged at
periodic intervals.

Validation of methods is a critical ISO 17025 requirement, for which SampleManager
has built-in functionality to allow lab managers to be in continuous compliance.
SampleManager\'s Batch Management functionality provides analytical QA/QC support,
including automatic and interactive sample assignment according to pre-defined
templates.

Equipment and Instrument calibration, also an important part of ISO 17025, is
managed by SampleManager through Instrument Calibration Scheduling, allowing the
LIMS to prevent the use of any instrument that is past its calibration due date.
SampleManager provides reporting that indicates instruments out of compliance or
needing calibration.

Finally, to comply with ISO 17025 Reporting requirements, SampleManager\'s existing
functionality includes a powerful and flexible report writing, making it possible to
create any report format required by the laboratory, and including any data stored
within the SampleManager database.

For more information about Thermo Scientific informatics solutions, please visit
booth 105/204, hall B1 at Analytica 2008 in Munich. Alternatively, please call
+1-866-463-6522, e-mail marketing.informatics@thermofisher.com
or visit www.thermo.com/informatics.

Thermo Scientific is part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving
science.

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science,
enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With annual
revenues of $10 billion, we have more than 30,000 employees and serve over 350,000
customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical
diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as
well as environmental and industrial process control settings. Serving customers
through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, we help solve
analytical challenges from routine testing to complex research and discovery. Thermo
Scientific offers customers a complete range of high-end analytical instruments as
well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable
integrated laboratory workflow solutions. Fisher Scientific provides a complete
portfolio of laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies and services used in
healthcare, scientific research, safety and education. Together, we offer the most
convenient purchasing options to customers and continuously advance our technologies
to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, enhance value for customers and fuel
growth for shareholders and employees alike. Visit www.thermofisher.com.


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Contact Details: Media Contact Information:
Name: Kath Darlington
Phone: +44 (0) 1477 539539
E-mail: thermofisher@scottpr.com
Website: www.scottpr.com

Media Contact Information:
Name: Patty McDermott
Phone: +1 781 287 4839
E-mail: patricia.mcdermott@thermofisher.com
Website: www.thermo.com/informatics