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Absolute Bastardos! What does it all make of PD? They are supposed to be a reliable body? My A.S.S!!
PL75, why I feel like the guy in gaol who is going to pick up the soap on the floor in the male shower room? This makes a mockery of Porton Down and their pseudo scientists! Absolute mockery!!
Lets not forget that the postion Avacta found itself in with respect to BAMs was very similar. I and others called it at the time, it was plain for any objectively minded person to see. Too many PCR tests needing to be sold was essentially my take on it.
AgentB, is 2.5cm enough would you say?
I say the consortium should expose the government's Porton Down. Even Deeks could assess the LFTs more fairly and dare I say logically?
Are they going for the full set? ODX unhappy as they’re sat doing nowt. Mologic considering going to court I.e. GAD. BBI calling them out on social media. PresAl taking the psss in RNSs. NCYT cast aside. ABDX is dispute over unpaid bills.
**** the U.K. govt. Form a new private consortium and sell the full U.K. capacity abroad.
What are PD doing to the tests?! PresAl said they weren’t using them as designed, Mologic are finding they’re suggesting ridiculous failure rates. Meanwhile test after test from Chin-ah sail through. Madness.
Explains why Al Is going after Europe first, what a cluster ****. Just hope mologic aren't doing this to also purposely scupper the mologic branded avacta test, as its exactly what I would do if I was a spiteful partner, timing it when the Govt are about to select a test. Maybe better all round to scrap moonshot and let market choices dictate the best test. We already know the ODX/Mologic test is crap to use and has poor accuracy compared to ours. Wouldn't surprise me if govt were to carry on with innova or select another dodgy foreign test.
Anal swabs to Han**** folks!
It goes to show that the Porton Down test approval process is being heavily questioned. Innova are about to be further scrutinised. i) FDA bin comments, ii) MHRC already unhappy with the use of Innova and now iii) PD questioned as to why they've selected some tests (Innova) and not others. This is playing well for Avacta for now.
Here is a world expert tweeting on the subject:
https://twitter.com/deeksj/status/1404493264129081345
I have to say there's quite pong around all of this. The UK Gov's clear bias towards Innova, despite it being completely discredited by the scientific community. The lack of support for the UK diagnostics industry. The Innova factory in Wales.
pt3
Mologic is submitting for approval a lateral flow test aimed at the American home-testing market to the US drugs regulator, the FDA. It was given an $11m grant by US authorities to develop it and, if approved, it could go on sale there in a matter of weeks.
The UK has relied heavily on US-based Innova to supply it with lateral flow tests. Innova is owned by private equity firm Pasaca Capital, which was founded by Charles Huang.
Innova has supplied the Government with more than a billion rapid tests under contracts worth more than £3bn.
Last week the FDA issued a warning saying the Innova test should not be used and should be "put in the trash" after issuing a "class 1 recall" - the most serious - amid concerns over the test’s accuracy.
The FDA has accused Innova of, among other things, submitting falsified data and distributing the test in the US without FDA approval.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: "Collaboration between industry and government continues to play a central role in our response to this pandemic and we are hugely grateful to all manufacturers and suppliers who have come forward to offer their assistance in producing lateral flow tests during this unprecedented time.
"The UK is leading the way in medical diagnostics and testing to stop the spread of Covid and any lateral flow devices must pass a rigorous validation process to make sure they are accurate, reliable and safe."
Mologic have had CE mark for a while, they've been stone walled. Avacta have only recently had their CE mark and they are still in "ongoing, but slow, dialogue with DHSC/PHE" - this implies that Avacta are not stonewalled and are not in the same position as Mologic.
However, I think Mologic should definitely go ahead and sue. It's better for Mologic and also for Avacta.
pt2.
Mark Davis, the chief executive, has now sent Public Health England and the Department for Health and Social Care a pre-action letter - a pre-court commitment giving the other party an opportunity to cooperate or risk legal action. The pre-action letter was rejected.
Mr Davis said: “We are quietly confident that this is the best rapid lateral flow diagnostic in the world and the UK doesn’t want it. It also costs a fourth of the price of the Innova test.
“All we have requested is for Porton Down to evaluate the test with an independent party observing, simply to allow us to understand how PHE is able to get masses of kit failures when no one else in the world that has validated our test has managed that.
“We have seen a 1pc to 2pc failure rate across all our internal studies and PHE are getting 30pc to 60pc. You would have thought that was a reasonable request.”
Since the pre-action letter, Mologic has sent two more letters to the Government but has had no response.
“Today we will issue them with draft court papers,” said Mr Davis. “I am trying really hard to avoid legal action because once we press the go button that is irreversible.”
pt1
A Covid test-maker is preparing to sue the Government over claims that "stonewalling" by the state has stopped its kits from being approved and used in the UK.
Bedford-based Mologic said Porton Down keeps failing its test due to "kit failure", or being deemed too difficult to administer.
The company was given nearly £1m last year by the Government to develop an affordable British designed and manufactured rapid lateral flow test.
Mologic claims its test is one of the most accurate following evaluation by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Geneva-based global diagnostics alliance Find on behalf of the World Health Organisation.
The test has been registered with Germany’s medicines watchdog as well as Britain’s MHRA.
Mologic has questioned the Porton Down evaluation procedure and written numerous letters and emails seen by The Telegraph to Boris Johnson, MPs and Lord Bethell, a health minister, but has "got nowhere".
Hope they do, hope they win. There’s real anger in the industry about this and it’s completely understandable.
Avacta are in in "ongoing, but slow, dialogue with DHSC/PHE". It seems like Mologic has been stonewalled and Innova have had extremely bad press. With Mologic threatening to sue, the UK market is opening up for Avacta. Could we see UK sales RNS shortly?
Our test is via mologic right? So where will this leave us
Avacta should join in and we should crowdfund them!
Experts have asked for data used by PHE and PD to be made available and for more transparency, however this seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Seems like they are about to be sued.
https://uk.newschant.com/business/covid-test-maker-mologic-set-to-sue-government-over-stonewalling/
A complete cluster ****
More details of article as its behind a paywall.
https://twitter.com/manxmarkets/status/1404492385053253641
https://twitter.com/boy_cellar/status/1404489707753455627
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/06/14/covid-test-maker-mologic-set-sue-government-stonewalling/