Quidel Receives Amended Emergency Use Authorization for New Sofia® Q Rapid Antigen Test Device

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Jun 11, 2021

Quidel Corporation (NASDAQ: QDEL) (“Quidel”), a provider of rapid diagnostic testing solutions, cellular-based virology assays and molecular diagnostic systems, announced today that Quidel has received an amended Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowing the company to market Sofia® Q, its latest addition to the Sofia® and Sofia® 2 line of Fluorescent Immunoassay Analyzers (FIA). Sofia Q features a sleek, miniaturized design that reads the same Sofia® SARS Antigen FIA tests as Sofia and Sofia 2 - with equal accuracy. Sales of Sofia Q device will initially be limited to use with the Sofia® SARS Antigen FIA in the CLIA and CLIA-waived professional segments.