What is the market size in the US for shaker-flask type equipment
(along with its probes for dissolved oxygen, optical density, pH,
etc.)?  Another way to ask this is, how many shaker-flask (less than 1
liter) fermentation runs are made per year by bioprocess development
groups in the pharma/biotech, industrial biotech (chemical industry),
and ag-biotech (food and plant industries) industries (i.e., the
companies in various industries that do bioprocess development)? 
Please explain how you got at your answer so I can understand what it
includes.

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Clarification of Question by katire-ga on 09 Oct 2003 10:49 PDT

When I say shaker-flask type equipment, I mean shaker flasks which are
used for bench scale fermentations only.  Thanks.