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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.”
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