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(43) Date of publication: 07.01.1999 Bulletin 1999/01 (21) Application number: 97900160.0 (22) Date of filing: 17.01.1997

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  B65H 3/ 08( . ) G01N 1/ 28( . ) G01N 35/ 10( . ) G01N 1/ 00( . ) G01N 1/ 30( . ) G01N 1/ 31( . ) (86) International application number: PCT/AU1997/000027 (87) International publication number: WO 1997/026541 (24.07.1997 Gazette 1997/32)

(84) Designated Contracting States: AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE (30) Priority: 17.01.1996 AU 1996PN07621 (71) Applicant: AUSTRALIAN BIOMEDICAL CORPORATION LIMITED Mount Waverley, VIC 3149 (AU)	(72) Inventor: MEIKLE, Peter, John Surrey Hills, VIC 3127 (AU) (74) Representative: Findlay, Alice Rosemary  Lloyd Wise, Tregear & Co., Commonwealth House, 1-19 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1LW London WC1A 1LW (GB)