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Article: PRIONICS AND ROCHE GAIN APPROVAL OF RAPID BSE TESTS FROM USDA.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- April 12, 2004
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ZURICH and BASEL, April 8 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Prionics AG, the world leader in testing procedures for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow" disease, and Roche Diagnostics, the number one in-vitro diagnostics company in the world, announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved the two Prionics BSE tests, Prionics(R)-Check WESTERN, and Prionics(R)-Check LIA, for use in the United States' enhanced BSE surveillance program. Both tests will be distributed by Roche Diagnostics in the United States. On a world-wide basis, Roche Diagnostics has distributed the ...