Chinese approval for Food Detective® test

OMEGA DIAGNOSTICS GROUP PLC

("Omega" or the "Company" or the "Group")

Chinese approval for self-test use of Food Detective® test

Omega (AIM: ODX), the medical diagnostics company focused on CD4, infectious diseases and food intolerance, announces that the National Medical Products Administration ("NMPA"), formerly the China Food and Drug Administration, has approved the Company's Food Detective® test for self-test use in China. 

Further to the announcement on 2 April 2020 confirming NMPA approval for laboratory use of the Food Detective® test in China, Omega's development team has continued to work in conjunction with its distribution partner to support their efforts to achieve NMPA approval to allow the test to be used in people's homes.

The Company will support its distribution partner to ensure that Food Detective® achieves commercial success in China as an approved home-use test.

Colin King, CEO of Omega commented: "I am delighted to receive self-test approval in China which was a key commercial objective for this year. This is another excellent reward for all the hard work put in by both our and our partner's teams in what has remained challenging times around the world."

The information communicated in this announcement is inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014.

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