At-home STI test pulled from Australian shelves after failing to detect infections
Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration pulled Touch Biotechnology's at-home chlamydia and gonorrhoea test from shelves after finding it unreliably detected infections. The company received a six-month suspension following reports of false negative results affecting an unspecified number of patients since the product's December 2024 launch.
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Published 20 Jul 2026, 15:00 UTC · Updated 20 Jul 2026, 15:21 UTC
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