Article: FDA Approves First West Nile Virus (WNV) Quality Controls.

BENICIA, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- AcroMetrix Corporation, a leading provider of quality controls for clinical diagnostic and blood testing laboratories, announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the VeriSure(R) Pro West Nile Virus (WNV) External Quality Controls. These controls are for use with Chiron's Procleix(R) WNV assay that was approved in December 2005 by the FDA for the testing of WNV using nucleic acid amplification. The clearance from the FDA allows these controls to be the first WNV control to be marketed and sold in the United States for "In vitro diagnostic use" in blood screening.

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