In Brief: ChemTrak
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
ChemTrak: Submits premarket approval application to FDA for its home HIV test kit, making it the second firm to seek agency approval for such a product; J&J subsidiary Direct Access Diagnostics has a PMA pending for its home HIV testing service. The ChemTrak test involves pricking the finger with a lancet, placing two drops of blood on a special paper, and then sending the sample in a postage-paid mailer to ChemTrak for testing. The product was obtained by ChemTrak through the acquisition of Coonan Clinical Labs ("The Tan Sheet" Jan. 2, p. 24), which was completed on Feb. 3...