{"id":92916,"date":"2020-05-01T13:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=92916"},"modified":"2020-05-01T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:53:33","slug":"lawsuit-alleges-company-sold-antibody-tests-not-approved-by-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/05\/01\/lawsuit-alleges-company-sold-antibody-tests-not-approved-by-fda\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit alleges company sold antibody tests not approved by FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_92917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92917\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92917\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LADA-Jackie-Lacey-press-conference.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LADA-Jackie-Lacey-press-conference.jpg 370w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LADA-Jackie-Lacey-press-conference-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">District Attorney Jackie Lacey announces civil charges against Applied BioSciences Corp. over allegations they marketed and sold at-home COVID-19 blood tests not approved by the FDA. [Image via Jackie Lacey Twitter]<\/figcaption><\/figure>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Los Angeles County District Attorney<strong> Jackie Lacey<\/strong> Friday announced a lawsuit against a company that allegedly sold COVID-19 blood serum tests that were not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges Applied Biosciences Corp. sold and marketed the antibody test kits for $35 each and claimed the tests were 96% accurate. In a press release, the company claimed that with a small blood sample, the tests could identify the early or late stages of someone&#8217;s antibody levels in less than 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re asking the court to stop these defendants from continuing to market and sell the at-home test kits,&#8221; Lacey said. &#8220;We&#8217;re also seeking civil penalties and restitution for all consumers who bought the test kits. Under the law, we may seek as much as $2,500 in penalties for each violation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Antibody tests are a way to examine blood serum to find out if someone has recently recovered from COVID-19, which can be especially helpful to stopping the spread of the virus if the person did not experience symptoms. Health experts say those tests don&#8217;t necessarily tell if someone is infectious or not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our lawsuit accuses the company of making false claims that are misleading, unfair, unlawful and quite frankly, dangerous,&#8221; Lacey said. &#8220;At all times, but especially during this public emergency, consumers should be able to trust that health care treatments &#8230; are providing reliable and accurate results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Calls and emails to Applied Biosciences&#8217; headquarters in New York were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p>The case against Applied Biosciences is the first lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Joint Coronavirus Task Force during the pandemic, Lacey said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey Friday announced a lawsuit against a company that allegedly sold COVID-19 blood serum tests that were not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The lawsuit alleges Applied Biosciences Corp. sold and marketed the antibody test kits for $35 each and claimed the tests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1499,1496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}