0000899243-17-024059.txt : 20171011 0000899243-17-024059.hdr.sgml : 20171011 20171011184436 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000899243-17-024059 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20171009 FILED AS OF DATE: 20171011 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20171011 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Kenny John P. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001719325 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-14902 FILM NUMBER: 171133498 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3471 RIVER HILLS DRIVE CITY: CINCINNATI STATE: OH ZIP: 45244 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MERIDIAN BIOSCIENCE INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000794172 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: IN VITRO & IN VIVO DIAGNOSTIC SUBSTANCES [2835] IRS NUMBER: 310888197 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OH FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3471 RIVER HILLS DR CITY: CINCINNATI STATE: OH ZIP: 45244 BUSINESS PHONE: 5132713700 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3471 RIVER HILLS DRIVE CITY: CINCINNATI STATE: OH ZIP: 45244 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MERIDIAN DIAGNOSTICS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 3 1 doc3.xml FORM 3 SUBMISSION X0206 3 2017-10-09 0 0000794172 MERIDIAN BIOSCIENCE INC VIVO 0001719325 Kenny John P. 3471 RIVER HILLS DR. CINCINNATI OH 45244 1 1 0 0 Chief Executive Officer Common Stock 0 D /s/ Melissa A. Lueke as Attorney-in-fact for John P. Kenny 2017-10-11 EX-24 2 attachment1.htm EX-24 DOCUMENT

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Melissa A. Lueke, Bryan T. Baldasare, Jeff Pinkston, F. Mark
Reuter and Allison A. Westfall signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:

     (1)   execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, Forms 3, 4 and 5 in
           accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
           and the rules thereunder.

     (2)   do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
           undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and
           execute any such Form 3, 4 and 5 and timely file such form with the
           United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock
           exchange or similar authority; and

     (3)   take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
           foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of
           benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
           undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
           attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power
           of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and
           conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-
           fact's discretion.

     The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute  or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in- fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming any
of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

     This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities, unless earlier revoked
by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-
fact.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 9th day of October, 2017.

                                              By:   /s/ John P. Kenny
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                                                    John P. Kenny