Innovive Introduces Major Enhancements
to Fully-Disposable Rodent Caging System

(Salt Lake City, UT, October 16, 2006) – Innovive, Inc., a technology development and manufacturing company, today announced the availability of five new products that dramatically expand the capabilities and benefits of the company’s Innovive^® System, the industry’s first fully-disposable, dual HEPA-filtered rodent caging system. The announcement was made at the National Meeting of the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science, being held in Salt Lake City, UT.

The Innovive System eliminates washing, sterilization and storage of change-out caging, thus streamlining vivarium operations and freeing up personnel and resources. It can reduce the fully-loaded cost of vivarium operations by more than 40 percent, while doubling animal housing capacity.

The Innovive System has three major components: the Innocage^®; a single-use, fully-disposable cage for housing rodents; the Innorack^®, a lightweight dual HEPA-filtered cage rack that holds up to 168 Innocage units and offers superior airflow and ergonomic features; and the Aquavive™ single-use irradiated recyclable 330ml water bottle.

The five new enhancements to the Innovive System are:

• Complete disposable IVC (individually ventilated cage) system for rats:Innorack® and Innocage® modules specially designed for rat populations provide all the benefits of the already- popular mouse Innocage. The Innorack for rats is modular with a maximum capacity of 80 cages.


• Static micro-isolator cages: Innocages can now be used as static caging (not attached to a ventilated rack), enabling the many vivariums that use traditional static caging to easily convert to a fully-disposable mode of operation.


• BSL-2 and BSL-3 caging: Designed for use in BSL facilities, the system uses Innocages that are individually HEPA-filtered, fully-disposable and completely compatible with the standard Innorack. The Innovive® System makes it easy to conduct BSL work with single-use cages completely eliminating the need to wash and sterilize cages that are potentially dangerous to vivarium and washroom staff.


• Integrated euthanizing station: A system that works seamlessly with the Innocage. Animals are taken in Innocages from the Innorack and placed directly in the station, where Innovive airflow technology delivers precisely measured and digitally-timed quantities of CO2.


• Mass-market water bottle: The Aquavive fully-disposable water bottle can now be used with traditional caging, using a simple adapter that allows the bottle to interface easily with a traditional wire-bar lid.

The Innocage’s patent-pending design uses thin-walled polymers that both maintain security and eliminate chewing. The snap-on top forms an air-tight seal, and a built-in filter allows the cage to breathe when outside the rack, while preventing contaminants from entering the cage. The complete Innocage® weighs less than nine ounces, and is made of virgin PETE #1, one of the world’s most recycled polymers.

“These enhancements to the Innovive System make it possible for more vivariums to choose a fully-disposable model for managing their rodent populations,” said Dee Conger, Innovive’s CEO. “Because the Innovive System is both low-risk and low-cost, vivariums can expand their operations with minimal capital expense – while preserving their legacy infrastructure investments.”

About Innovive, Inc.

Innovive, Inc. was founded in 2004 with the goal of radically transforming the economics and convenience of working with laboratory animals. Using advanced computer-aided design and manufacturing processes, Innovive creates novel animal caging systems to provide customers with superior quality, performance, and cost savings. Innovive's products are independently tested and validated to assure trouble-free operation, and the company's global manufacturing and distribution network provides advantageous pricing and rapid order fulfillment.