{"id":4225,"date":"2023-12-23T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2024-04-05T19:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:02:46","slug":"rapid-test-supplier-btnx-says-canadians-can-rely-on-its-devices-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/rapid-test-supplier-btnx-says-canadians-can-rely-on-its-devices-accuracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid test supplier BTNX says Canadians can rely on its device\u2019s accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

BTNX, the Canadian rapid test supplier that won an estimated $2 billion in federal contracts, denied that Health Canada used BTNX\u2019s edited study to evaluate the rapid test kit that the federal government later purchased.<\/p>\n

A year-long investigation into federal procurement published by Global News on Thursday revealed that Toronto area-based BTNX deleted dozens of specimens, or samples, from a study it submitted to Health Canada. That evaluation showed how well the company\u2019s test detected COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BTNX, the Canadian rapid test supplier that won an estimated $2 billion in federal contracts, denied that Health Canada used BTNX\u2019s edited study to evaluate the rapid test kit that the federal government later purchased.<\/p>\n

A year-long investigation into federal procurement published by Global News on Thursday revealed that Toronto area-based BTNX deleted dozens of specimens, or samples, from a study it submitted to Health Canada. That evaluation showed how well the company\u2019s test detected COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Continue readingRapid test supplier BTNX says Canadians can rely on its device\u2019s accuracy<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[747,96,18,21,22,14],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-btnx","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-rapid-tests","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}