Okos Diagnostics

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 🎉 Meet ‘ecoFluorecare’, the world’s first eco-friendly at-home test kit! 🌱 Say goodbye to single-use plastic cassettes 👋🏽 After filing two worldwide patents, fine-tuning biomaterials and injection moulding trials, we are honoured to incorporate our knowledge into a real test kit. Together with 迈科龙生物 Microprofit Biotech, we developed a biodegradable multiplex test for detecting COVID, Flu A&B and RSV. Fluorecare grew into a famous and reliable European test brand, selling millions of test kits. Recently, our team visited their headquarters in Shenzhen and discussed the topic of sustainability. Therefore, we are happy to launch our first product together. Our cassettes are produced from biobased materials, reduce carbon emissions and are compostable. Okos recently demonstrated in multiple validation studies that there is no difference in performance compared to standard test cassettes. With this eco-friendly twist, we now demonstrate that sustainability and diagnostics can go together! We offer ecoFluorecare for only 4.99 euros (well below the in-store price of the normal plastic version). This shows that incorporating eco-friendly components still results in competitive pricing! Currently, we have a limited stock of ecoFluorecare available on Measie. Get yours now 🫱🏽 https://lnkd.in/edXebRkS Are you interested in higher volumes of ecoFluorecare, or want to transition to our sustainable cassettes? Please message us at [email protected]. Please message us at [email protected]. Let’s make the diagnostic sector more sustainable, together! ♻️🌿🌎 World Health Organization FIND Etos Measie Michael Mina, MD, PhD Rick Bright

💡 How the plastic mountain of waste from health care could be recycled. A promising technology for the future? 🌏 - Single-use health care items—everything from gloves and blood bags to surgical equipment—have become a growing environmental problem worldwide. - Disposable health care items today create enormous amounts of waste. In the best-case scenario, this waste is incinerated, but in many countries it ends up in landfills, and it can also be released into the environment. - These problems can all be solved with the new method developed by Chalmers researchers. The technology is called 'thermochemical recycling' and is based on a process called "steam cracking." It breaks down the waste by mixing it with sand at temperatures up to 800°C. The plastic molecules are then broken apart and converted into a gas, which contains building blocks for new plastic. - "Thermochemical recycling would become more beneficial with new political frameworks that create a recycling solution for our plastic-rich waste" https://lnkd.in/enfREpkY

A recent study from the Netherlands: Consumers favour bio-based alternatives over traditional fossil-based plastic bottles. How does this translate to diagnostics (direct-to-consumer)? 💡 "It showed that people clearly preferred the bio-based bottles over the conventional one. The strongest preference was for the bottle that was recognisable as bio-based. The test subjects were willing to pay up to 40 % more for the bio-based bottles." “But the high willingness of the consumers to pay a bonus for bio-based product clearly indicates that there is a demand for these alternatives.” “The plastics transition is not just a technological transition. Better understanding the buying drivers of consumers are extremely important, especially in early phase when the sustainable alternatives are still relatively expensive.” Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eiivaMAd

Positive cases of COVID-19 on #ecoFluorecare 🦠 The coronavirus is experiencing a summer wave in Europe. The FLiRT variant of the coronavirus is causing a significant spike in the number of infections. The number of virus particles in the sewer was about six times higher last month than a year ago. In some places in the Netherlands the difference compared to last summer is even greater. #ecoFluorecare is now also available on Bol.com: https://lnkd.in/eu39_X-P

Detecting 4 respiratory conditions within an eco-friendly housing! 🌱 Check our flyer of #ecoFluorecare 💡 - Cost-effective - Easy-to-use - Environmental benefits - High accuracy Available at Measie: https://lnkd.in/edXebRkS If interested in higher volumes, please mail us at [email protected] 📩

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A crucial in-depth study about material usage in commercially available rapid test kits! A path towards a greener future of diagnostics ♻ 🌍 Over 2 billion LFA test kits are produced every year, adding tens of thousands of tonnes of used materials to the growing global volume of medical waste. ❕Policymakers, such as the World Health Organization, FIND, and others, are encouraged to make use of this dataset to derive target weights of individual components or full test and develop quantitative environmental sustainability targets in future Target Product Profile documents for lateral flow assays. 💡 Interesting Insights: The average weight of standard LFA housing is 4.1g per casing, with a range from 2.47g to 6.54g. The outer packaging accounted for 25% to over 88% of the total kit weight, followed by instructions and housing types. ♻ 🌿 Conclusion: The environmental impact of LFA tests is set to increase with more decentralized testing. The wide variation in component weights indicates a potential for manufacturers to reduce material usage, especially plastic. This research is a step towards more sustainable diagnostic testing. Let's push for greener, leaner LFA kits and protect our planet while ensuring public health. Great work by Maïwenn Kersaudy Kerhoas and team! ACON Biotech iHealth Labs Wondfo Getein Biotech, Inc. Healgen Scientific Abbott | Diagnostics Roche Beijing Hotgen Biotech Co., Ltd NewGene 迈科龙生物 Microprofit Biotech NHS Ellume Merck Life Science Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/epbcQ47S

‘#ecoFluorecare’ is the world’s first eco-friendly at-home test kit, and Okos developed it with 迈科龙生物 Microprofit Biotech ! The first kits will detect COVID, Flu A&B, and RSV, which are some of the most common applications for rapid tests. Now, with Okos’s products, customers can choose more sustainable alternatives to the existing products on the market.’

One of the major criticisms of rapid antigen tests (and point of care tests overall) is that they are single use and generate a lot of waste (though I’d argue much less than bottled water, soda, plastic bags, plastic utensils, and so many other items we don’t even think about). Well, here is one company trying to clean up the world and keep people healthier through rapid tests - Okos Diagnostics is building the first fully biodegradable rapid tests - moving away from plastic to something more eco friendly. Great work Okos! Sander Julian Brus

North America is expected to account for the largest share of the Lateral Flow Assays industry. 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐃𝐅 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 https://lnkd.in/g6Qw6E9D The global lateral flow assays market in terms of revenue was estimated to be worth $10.8 billion in 2023 and is poised to reach $16.8 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 7.6% from 2023 to 2029. Key Players: Abbott QuidelOrtho Danaher Corporation Siemens Healthineers AG Becton, Dickinson and Company Thermo Fisher Scientific PerkinElmer QIAGEN N.V. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany Hologic, Inc. abcam PLC Surmodics, Inc.. Chembio Diagnostics, Inc. (BIOSYNEX) OraSure Technologies Biomed Diagnostics, a DCN Dx Brand. Polysciences, Inc. Abingdon Health plc Oranoxis, Inc. AESKU.GROUP Bio Group Medical System S.R.L Pharmact DIESSE Diagnostica Senese S.p.A. Biotime Poly-Dtech Okos Diagnostics Radetec Diagnostics BUHLMANN Diagnostics Corp Environmental Biotechnology Research Group/University of Johannesburg BioConnections (UK) Leopard Biosciences Diagno Biotechnology KENOSHA BV Testsealabs.de M-Labs CytoGroup Inc