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US approval of Brisbane company’s COVID test kit ‘very pleasing’
Ellume founder and CEO Sean Parsons said the company was very pleased by the FDA approval, which he said was a show of support for their testing platform.
“It’s exciting for Ellume. We’ve been developing our core technology for a long time, over a decade, and to see it being applied so swiftly to create a high-impact diagnostic product for COVID-19 is very pleasing,” Dr Parsons said.
Ellume’s kits are used with a free phone app, and do not require samples to be sent to a lab, meaning it can generate a result in around 15 minutes.
“We are now working feverishly to ramp up our manufacturing to supply as many of those tests to the US as we possibly can.”
Despite the approval for use in the US, the tests will not be rolled out in…
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