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Less than three months after regaining Health Canada approval for its portable COVID-19 testing technology, Spartan Bioscience has again halted shipments of its product after acknowledging an unspecified technical glitch.
The result: insolvency and much uncertainty about its future.
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“This is not a patient safety issue,” said Jennifer Ross Carriere, interim CEO of Spartan,”and we are working hard to resolve it.”
Spartan withdrew its DNA-testing device a year ago after initial test kits ordered by the federal government and several provinces provided sub-standard results. The Ottawa firm had spent months re-engineering its lab-in-a-box so that the swab would collect bigger COVID-19 samples. Health Canada granted approval again on Jan. 22.