ORCHARD PARK, N.Y., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MINRAD International, Inc. (AMEX:BUF) today announced it has completed validation of its new Sevoflurane Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient ("API") Line, located at the Company's Bethlehem Manufacturing Facility. The addition of the Sevoflurane API line will increase the capacity of MINRAD's Bethlehem facility anesthetic production four times from its previous production capabilities.
With validation of the new Sevoflurane API line complete, MINRAD has begun production on its three active pharmaceutical lines (Sevoflurane, Isoflurane, and Enflurane) allowing the Company to produce all three products simultaneously, as opposed to the previous production limitations the Company experienced.
Bill Burns, MINRAD Chairman and CEO, commented "The completion of validation of our new Sevoflurane API is a significant milestone in the history of MINRAD, allowing the Company to achieve significantly higher production and revenue targets in 2008." Contact: Timothy Sheehan, VP - Corporate Development
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http://www.minrad.com/ About the Company
MINRAD International, Inc. is an interventional pain management company with real-time image guidance and anesthesia and analgesia product lines. The real-time image guidance products facilitate minimally invasive surgery especially for pain management and have broad applications in orthopedics, neurosurgery, and interventional radiology. These devices enable medical professionals to improve the accuracy of interventional procedures and reduce radiation exposure. MINRAD International also manufactures and markets generic inhalation anesthetics for use in connection with human and veterinary surgical procedures. The company is developing a drug/drug delivery system for conscious sedation, which, similar to nitrous oxide in dental surgery, provides a patient with pain relief without loss of consciousness. Additional information can be found at the company's website, http://www.minrad.com/.
The information contained in this news release, other than historical information, consists of forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in such statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by its forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, MINRAD International's limited operating history and business development associated with being a growth stage company; its dependence on key personnel; its need to attract and retain technical and managerial personnel; its ability to execute its business strategy; the intense competition it faces; its ability to protect its intellectual property and proprietary technologies; its exposure to product liability claims resulting from the use of its products; general economic and capital market conditions; financial conditions of its customers and their perception of its financial condition relative to that of its competitors; as well as those risks described under the heading "Risk Factors" of MINRAD International's Form 10-KSB, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29, 2007. Although MINRAD International, Inc. believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. DATASOURCE: MINRAD International, Inc.
CONTACT: Timothy Sheehan, VP - Corporate Development, +1-716-855-1068, Web site: http://www.minrad.com/
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