Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) We’ll take our first question from Tony Brenner with Roth Capital Partners. Please go ahead.
Tony Brenner - Roth Capital Partners
Thank you. A couple of questions; first of all, can you bring us up to date on the approval of the Beta Star dairy test kit?
James L. Herbert
I don’t know why I’m not surprised that that wasn’t the first question. I guess we’ve been guilty of underestimating how long it takes to get through government bureaucracy sometimes. That project continues to I think move along well. We’ve as far as I know have completed all of the test work that the FDA required. It’s a matter of getting some paperwork finished up now. I believe that we should have the FDA paperwork out of the way and approval done sometime -- I’m going to venture a guess and say the next month and then we’ll need to get some approvals through the interstate milk shippers, which will take, depending upon how fast they move, it could take I guess, Tony, it could take another month on top of that. Something it looks like to me we ought to be able to do in a couple of weeks but nothing ever moves at the speed that I think it should.
In the meantime, the product continues to do very well and outside of the U.S. and international markets, as I think Lon reported in his comments, sales of our dairy antibiotic business along with several of our drug detection products continue to progress very well.
Lon M. Bohannon
The dairy antibiotics have had two outstanding quarters and I am just amazed at how long it takes to get through this process. I heard a comment that we were talking to one of our competitors who was talking about what we were doing here and asked us how long we thought it would take to get this done. And of course, we were saying like we thought we’d get this done in six to nine months and they just started laughing.
We continue to have conference calls. We provide them the information. They look at the information and then there is some statistician or somebody else who wants to see one more thing. And so that’s kind of in the mode we’re in right now but we’re -- I think we are getting close and we think we’ve got a very good test there and we are looking forward to having that available for the U.S. market.
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