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Eurofins Launches COVID-19 PCR Tests with At-Home Self-Sampling Options in Europe

By LabMedica International staff writers
Posted on 24 Dec 2020
Eurofins Technologies (Budapest, Hungary) has launched EmpowerDX SARS CoV 2 RT PCR test with at home sampling option after it received an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the FDA.

To make patient sampling easier by non-healthcare professionals and especially for testing children, Eurofins validated a sampling method based on gargling with a sterile solution. More...
At-home gargling self-sampling offers the advantage of a simple non-invasive sampling method, allowing patients to be tested without any constraint of medical sampling capacity.

The kit is delivered to the patient and collected after self-sampling, with results delivered in less than 24 hours. As this product can significantly expand access to testing, Eurofins will apply for regulatory approval to launch similar tests in the UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Sweden, amongst others. These tests will also detect VUI2020-12/01 virus variants recently reported to be spreading quickly in the UK. Eurofins Genomics also has significant sequencing capacity to identify this or other variants of the virus.

Given the limited understanding of the prevalence of this new variant in Europe and the consequent potential pandemic acceleration, Eurofins has decided to donate part of its sequencing capacity to national public health authorities who do not have already approved funding to identify VUI2020-12/01 in their positive samples to evaluate local prevalence of this new strain. This knowledge may be useful in deciding on local isolation and travel restrictions.

A version of this product is derived from a test developed by Eurofins Viracor in March 2020 which was ranked by the FDA as the most sensitive out of more than 115 kits evaluated with the FDA reference panel evaluation.


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