Eckert & Ziegler Receives Technetium Generator Licenses for Brazil
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DGAP-Ad-hoc: Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG / Key word(s): Strategic Company Decision/Miscellaneous Sao Paulo, 12 April 2021 - The Brazilian regulator ANVISA has provided Eckert & Ziegler Brasil Comercial Ltda., a fully owned subsidiary of Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG (ISIN DE0005659700, TecDAX), with a license to import and distribute technetium generators. This is the second license ever given to an organization in Brazil, and only the first one for a private company. Technetium generators are a core component for a nuclear imaging procedure called SPECT, which is used for the detection of medical abnormalities. In Brazil, the SPECT market has a volume of about 100 mm Euro annually. Eckert & Ziegler already services about 500 hospitals and clinics in this country with medical devices and radioisotopes, and hopes to start shipping SPECT products in the third quarter of 2021. Information and Explanation of the Issuer to this News: Claudia Goulart, CEO of Eckert & Ziegler Brasil, commented: 'We are very excited that Eckert & Ziegler has now been given the opportunity to service the Brazilian nuclear medicine community with SPECT products. It compliments perfectly our existing portfolio of radiopharmaceuticals, among them Lu-177 and O-18, and the services we provide for international pharmaceutical companies'.
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| Language: | English |
| Company: | Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG |
| Robert-Rössle-Str.10 | |
| 13125 Berlin | |
| Germany | |
| Phone: | +49 30 941084-138 |
| Fax: | +49 30 941084-112 |
| E-mail: | karolin.riehle@ezag.de |
| Internet: | www.ezag.de |
| ISIN: | DE0005659700 |
| WKN: | 565970 |
| Indices: | SDAX |
| Listed: | Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange |
| EQS News ID: | 1183796 |
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