OraSure Collection Device Cleared by FDA for Covid Testing
OraSure said its saliva-based collection device was included in an FDA emergency-use authorization to expand coronavirus testing.
Author: OraSure (
OSUR) - Get Report, the maker of oral tests for HIV and Ebola, received emergency-use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its specimen-collection device to be used in a developing PCR test to detect coronavirus.
The Ottawa company s device is part of 3B BlackBio Biotech s covid-19 test. 3B BlackBio, Bhopal, India, provides molecular-testing products and services.
OraSure s Omnigel saliva-collection device was part of an emergency-use authorization the FDA granted to the 3B BlackBio covid test.