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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ PathogenDx, Inc., an Arizona based technology company which has developed a multiplexed microarray DNA-based pathogen testing platform, announced today that it has been issued a Certificate of Validation for its Enviro
X-Rv test kit to detect SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19 illness, on environmental surfaces.
The test is one of the first to pass the rigorous independent evaluation required by the globally-recognized AOAC Research Institute s Performance Tested Methods
SM Program, which implemented an Emergency Response Validation process to accelerate the review process.
To receive the certification, the test underwent a matrix study as well as a ground-breaking
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ PathogenDx, Inc., an Arizona based technology company which has developed a multiplexed microarray DNA-based pathogen testing platform, announced today that Dr. David Acheson will join the company as a strategic advisor. As part of the role, Dr. Acheson will form a food safety committee that will inform the company s development of rapid detection testing technologies for the food industry.
Dr. Acheson brings more than 35 years of medical and food safety research and experience to PathogenDx. Formally trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases, he left his practice to teach and study at Tufts University in Boston, where he researched the molecular pathogenesis of foodborne pathogens. Subsequently, he was tapped to serve as Chief Medical Officer at both the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service as well as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), and was later