{"id":19100,"date":"2021-11-11T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19100"},"modified":"2021-11-11T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T11:42:08","slug":"fda-recalling-2-million-ellume-at-home-covid-19-test-kits-because-of-false-positives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19100","title":{"rendered":"FDA recalling 2 million Ellume at-home COVID-19 test kits because of false positives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Dave Mistich for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has\u00a0announced\u00a0a recall of about 2 million at-home COVID-19 test kits made by the Australian-based biotech company Ellume.<\/p>\n<p>The federal regulatory agency says the test kits may produce &#8220;false positives&#8221; due to a manufacturing defect. The company first informed the FDA about the defect in some lots in October.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/11\/1054606822\/fda-recalling-2-million-ellume-at-home-covid-19-test-kits-because-of-false-posit\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Dave Mistich for NPR) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has\u00a0announced\u00a0a recall of about 2 million at-home COVID-19 test kits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,14,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-medical-technology","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19101,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100\/revisions\/19101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}