Eurofins’ empowerDX Launches PFAS Exposure™ in the U.S, the First At-Home Blood Test to Detect and Measure 40+ PFAS Compounds
21 Janvier 2022 - 04:02PM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Today, Eurofins (Paris:ERF) subsidiary empowerDX has launched
PFAS Exposure™ in the United States, the first direct to consumer
at-home test to determine levels of PFAS in a person’s blood and
measure 47 of the PFAS “forever chemical” compounds.
Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS), such as PFOA
and PFOS, known as “forever chemicals”, characteristically resist
natural breakdown in the environment and human bodies. The US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that
exposure to these chemicals may cause adverse health effects, such
as cancer, thyroid disease, immune suppression, elevated
cholesterol, respiratory disease, and decreased fertility. One
report by the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey (NHANES) found PFAS in the blood of 97% of Americans.
The identification of PFAS through blood testing is a
significant milestone. PFAS Exposure™, developed by Eurofins
Environment Testing companies and their research partners, and
being launched in the U.S by empowerDX, is a self-administered
sampling kit, which is the first of its kind and uses a simple
finger prick. To date, testing for PFAS in blood has relied on
serum as an estimation for whole blood and required a blood draw
conducted by a healthcare practitioner. Eurofins’ PFAS Exposure™
collection kits are an all-in-one solution that include the
essentials for collection and transport, allowing participants to
self-collect samples at home or work, and submit them directly to
the laboratory.
The PFAS Exposure kit is available in the United States through
Eurofins’ at-home health testing business, empowerDX. Kits can be
purchased online for $399 and are shipped directly to the
customer’s home or business.
To learn more, please visit this website
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food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and
in agroscience Contract Research services. Eurofins is also one of
the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for
genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, BioPharma Contract
Development and Manufacturing, advanced material sciences and in
the support of clinical studies. The Group also has a rapidly
developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical
diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.
With 55,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial
network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries, Eurofins offers a
portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the
safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability
and purity of a wide range of products, as well as providing
innovative clinical diagnostic testing services and in-vitro
diagnostic products.
The Group’s objective is to provide its customers with
high-quality services, innovative solutions and accurate results on
time. Eurofins is ideally positioned to support its clients’
increasingly stringent quality and safety standards and the
increasing demands of regulatory authorities as well as the
requirements of healthcare practitioners around the world.
In 2020, Eurofins reacted quickly to meet the global challenge
of COVID-19, by creating the capacity to help over 20 million
patients monthly who may have been impacted by the pandemic with
our testing products and our services and directly supporting
healthcare professionals working on the front line to fight the
virus. The Group has established widespread PCR testing
capabilities and has carried out over 30 million tests in its own
laboratories, is supporting the development of a number of vaccines
and has established its SAFER@WORK™ testing, monitoring and
consulting programmes to help ensure safer environments, travel and
events during COVID-19.
Eurofins has grown very strongly since its inception and its
strategy is to continue expanding its technology portfolio and its
geographic reach. Through R&D and acquisitions, the Group draws
on the latest developments in the field of biotechnology and
analytical chemistry to offer its clients unique analytical
solutions.
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