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Eiken Chemical Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of pharmaceuticals, reagents, medical and scientific equipment, etc. It operates through following business divisions: Clinical Diagnostics and Testing of Food and Environment. The Clinical Diagnostics division handles the manufacture of clinical diagnostic products and services. The Testing of Food and Environment division deals with the sale of reagents for microbiological tests on food for poisoning bacteria, and environment for contamination of work environments. Its products include fecal immunochemical testing equipment, molecular test loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), immunological and serological reagents, and rapid diagnostic tests such as IMMUNOCATCH Norovirus, IMMUNOCATCH Legionella, and IMMUNOCATCH Streptococcus pneumoniae. The company was founded on February 20, 1939 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.