CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
March 2, 2020—Exact Diagnostics, which Bio-Rad acquired in 2019, launched EDX RP Positive Run Control, an unassayed external quality control intended to monitor the performance of clinical respiratory assays.
The control contains 22 respiratory analytes that are internally value-assigned using Bio-Rad’s Digital Droplet PCR technology. The multiplex control is a combination of whole, intact virus and bacteria samples that have been heated or chemically inactivated, as well as synthetic RNA transcripts. It is designed to test the entire process of a molecular assay, including extraction, detection, and amplification, and it targets the 22 analytes in a single vial.