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Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics offers complete drugs-of-abuse panel, adds five assays

Published in Healthcare Mergers, Acquisitions and Ventures Week, February 24th, 2007

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson company, announces U.S. Food & Drug Administration 510(k) clearance and worldwide availability of five additional MicroTip assays for use in the diagnosis and treatment of drug use or overdose.

The five new tests complete the menu of eight drugs-of-abuse assays now available for use on the Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics VITROS 5,1 FS Chemistry System. These assays are used to detect the presence in urine of barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cannabinoids, methadone and opiates.

The VITROS 5,1 FS Chemistry System allows the consolidation of drugs of abuse testing (DAT) with routine chemistry testing on a single...

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