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Revocation of EUAs of in vitro diagnostic devices
On March 21, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a notice in the Federal Register about the revocation of six Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) of in vitro diagnostic devices for detection and/or diagnosis of COVID-19 to:
- Life Technologies Corp. (a legal entity of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.), for the TaqPath COVID-19 Pooling Kit
- Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., for the Reliance SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Assay Kit
- Revvity, Inc., (on behalf of Revvity Omics (a Revvity, Inc. company that was a rebranding of PerkinElmer Genomics)), for the PerkinElmer SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR Reagent Kit
- bioMérieux SA, for the VIDAS SARS-CoV-2 IgM kit
- bioMérieux SA, for the VIDAS SARS-CoV-2 IgG kit
- Luminex Corp., for the xMAP SARS-CoV-2 Multi-Antigen IgG Assay
FDA revoked these EUAs under the authority of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Refer to the FDA Letter of Revocation for more information.
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