Empowered Dx in Hot Water with FDA Again Over COVID-19 Test Kits
At the end of 2022, the agency sent a new warning letter to Empowered for unauthorized distribution of COVID-19 test kits.
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At the end of 2022, the agency sent a new warning letter to Empowered for unauthorized distribution of COVID-19 test kits.
Counterfeit COVID-19 tests are being illegally imported into the US and being distributed to unsuspecting consumers across the country.
The US Food and Drug Administration recently issued a letter warning people not to use two different tests produced by Empowered Diagnostics.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the truth of something the lab industry has known and publicly stated repeatedly for over a decade: The FDA is ill-equipped to regulate Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) and allowing it to continue to do so, at least under its current...