Becton Dickinson Wins Approval of Fast, Hand-Held Covid Test (1)

Becton Dickinson & Co. won a U.S. regulator’s approval for a portable Covid-19 test that delivers results in 15 minutes.

The Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency-use authorization for the BD Veritor Plus System, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey-based Becton Dickinson said Monday in a statement.

Becton Dickinson & Co.’s new Covid-19 test.

Source: Becton Dickinson

The hand-held product, which is around the size of a mobile phone, is part of a new class of antigen testing technology that promises to bring faster, cheaper testing to doctors’ offices, urgent-care centers and other medical facilities. The first such test, from Quidel Corp., was cleared for U.S. use in ...