Covid 19 Time SeriesRandox Laboratories, a Northern Ireland-based medical technology company, has been instructed by Britain’s medicines regulator to recall up to 741,000 coronavirus test kits from the national test and trace program as a precautionary measure. “The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has instructed Randox to recall all Randox test kits from NHS Test and Trace testing settings,” the ministry of health said in a statement on Friday. The risk to safety was low and test results from Randox kits were not affected, it said. Up to 741,000 unused Randox kits are estimated to be in the system, either at warehouses, at care homes or at private homes. Randox said the recall was a “regulatory measure” that applied only to sample collection kits within the NHS program.

Source: Standard Digital August 08, 2020 12:56 UTC