AnaSpec Collects Food for Alameda County Community Food Bank

Feb. 24, 2010 - PRLog -- Fremont, CA – February 24, 2010

Over the holidays, AnaSpec partnered with the Alameda County Community Food Bank to collect food for community members in need.  AnaSpec is pleased to announce that AnaSpec employees collected ninety pounds of food.

Theresa Maldonado, AnaSpec’s organizer, stated, “I would like to thank all the employees at AnaSpec who helped contribute the 90 lbs of food for the Alameda County Community Food Bank this Holiday Season.  It feels great to be able to help the people in our communities.”

About AnaSpec

AnaSpec is a leading provider of integrated proteomics solutions to the world’s largest biotech, pharmaceutical, and academic research institutions.  With a vision for innovation through synergy, AnaSpec focuses on three core technologies: peptides, detection reagents, and antibodies.

AnaSpec recently joined forces with Eurogentec to provide an even broader spectrum of products and services to serve the worldwide life science community.

AnaSpec is located at 34801 Campus Drive, Fremont, CA 94555.

For more information visit www.anaspec.com

About Eurogentec

Eurogentec is a leading global supplier of innovative reagents, kits, specialty products and custom services to scientists in the life science, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and diagnostic markets. Eurogentec provides a wide range of expertize in small- and large-scale DNA, RNA, PCR and qPCR kits, peptide synthesis and antibody supply for research applications. Our ISO13485:2003-certified manufacturing facilities in Belgium provides a wide range of high value oligonucleotide-based components for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Eurogentec’s Belgium manufacturing facility is complemented by additional production facilities in North America and Japan. Eurogentec is also an experienced Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) for Biopharmaceuticals, operating a full-service, state-of-the-art GMP facility in Belgium.

Eurogentec is a privately held company headquartered in Liège, Belgium, with subsidiaries in North America, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland and has additional production facilities in North America, Japan and Singapore. Eurogentec employs 400+ people globally.

For more information visit www.eurogentec.com

About Alameda County Community Food Bank

The Alameda County Community Food Bank has been in business since 1985 … with a vision toward a day when we can go out of business. As Alameda County's central clearinghouse for donated food, the Food Bank will distribute 18.2 million pounds of food in 2009 – including 7.6 million pounds of farm-fresh produce. Since moving into our permanent facility by the Oakland Airport in 2005, the Food Bank has ramped up distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables by a factor of 633%.

Through a network of 275 strategically placed member agencies – food pantries, soup kitchens, child-care centers, senior centers, after-school programs and other community-based organizations – the Food Bank distributes enough food for 300,000 meals weekly.

For more information visit www.accfb.org

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AnaSpec, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated proteomics solutions™ for worldwide life science research. AnaSpec offers expertise in three primary technologies: peptides, detection reagents, and combinatorial chemistry.