To help keep consumers safe, laboratories test fruits, vegetables, and other foods for pesticide residues. Cutting edge laboratories are now able to test more of these samples than ever before—with improved precision and greater accuracy—through automation made possible with Clippard miniature pneumatic valves and cylinders.

Rob Clippard, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Clippard Instrument Laboratory, gives an overview of Clippard's newest products on display at MD&M West 2016. Products featured include the NPV Series Pinch Valves, the NIV Series PTFE Media Isolation Valves, SV Series 2-Way 7mm Valves, and DR-2 Diaphragm Regulators.

Video filmed at MD&M West 2016 in Anaheim, CA by Medical Design & Outsourcing

From ambulance to operating room, recovery room to discharge at home, patients today encounter any number of medical devices that must be lightweight, small, safe, and often, portable. To maintain these safe, hygienic designs, most medical device manufacturers rely on pneumatics because they are highly customizable and compact.