CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
January 2023—Bio-Rad Laboratories has announced that Exact Diagnostics HBV, HCV, and HIV-1 screen controls are available in Europe. The controls are designed to monitor the performance of blood donor screening assays and are calibrated against the Third WHO International Standard for HBV (NIBSC code 10/264) and HIV-1 (10/152) and the Fourth WHO International Standard for HCV (06/102). The products are made of whole viruses in a citrate plasma matrix to ensure lot-to-lot reproducibility, have an 18-month shelf life from date of manufacture when stored at −20°C or below, and are stable for 24 hours when stored at 2° to 8°C.
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