Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Issued Emergency Use Authorization for Point of Care Antigen Test
SILVER SPRING, Md., July 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 antigen diagnostic test, the BD (Becton Dickinson) Veritor System for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2.
- SILVER SPRING, Md., July 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 antigen diagnostic test, the BD (Becton Dickinson) Veritor System for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2.
- This is the second antigen test the FDA has authorized for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 antigens.
- Emergency use of this test is limited to authorized laboratories using the BD Veritor Plus Analyzer Instrument.
- Antigen tests play an important role in the overall response against COVID-19, including as a point-of-care test that can potentially scale up to test millions of Americans quickly," said FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D.