Enforcement policy for viral transport media during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency: guidance for commercial manufacturers, clinical laboratories, and Food and Drug Administration staff
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Guidance for industry
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services. issuing body. United States. Food and Drug Administration. issuing body. Center for Devices and Radiological Health (U.S.), issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Silver Spring, MD] : Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Office of Product Evaluation and Quality, July 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Culture Media Specimen Handling Transportation Virus Diseases COVID-19 United States United States. Department of Health and Human Services. United States. Food and Drug Administration.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- FDA plays a critical role in protecting the United States from threats such as emerging infectious diseases, including the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. FDA is committed to providing timely guidance to support response efforts to this pandemic. FDA is issuing this guidance to help facilitate the availability of devices for use in transporting certain clinical specimens, including transport media that can be used to transport certain clinical specimens for use with molecular Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) assays or antigen-detection diagnostic SARS-CoV-2 assays (hereinafter collectively referred to as SARS-CoV-2 assays) for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency. This policy is intended to remain in effect only for the duration of the public health emergency related to COVID-19 declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on January 31, 2020, effective January 27, 2020, including any renewals made by the HHS Secretary in accordance with section 319(a)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act) (42 U.S.C. 247d(a)(2)).
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (9 pages)).
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918227257306676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918227257306676