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▍ Achievements and Benefits II. Internationally recognized
capabilities of national
I. Enhanced capability in laboratories in preparing
preparing national standards standards
to deploy advanced epidemic
control strength In order to assure the credibility of our
national standards, TFDA invited international
In response to COVID-19, supplying control laboratories in advanced countries
safe and effective anti-pandemic resources to such as the NIBSC in the UK to conduct
the public is the unchanged principle followed the collaborative study in compliance with
by TFDA. Our national laboratories devote applicable WHO guidelines to the preparation
themselves to prepare biological SARS- of international biological standards where
CoV-2 standards immediately, including the they could not only help one another define
new generation of SARS-CoV-2 national international or national standards but also
standard, containing the Wuhan strain and 5 cooperate with and supervise one another so
different variants (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, that Taiwan is capable of preparing standards
and omicron strain) and the antigen standard comparable to our international counterparts.
for the quality control of COVID-19 rapid test. In addition, the UK NIBSC is an international
Furthermore, the antigen standard has been laboratory for preparing WHO biological
used to ensure the quality of 20 brands (more standards. In the past, the world’s topnotch
than 50 batches) of COVID-19 rapid tests. laboratories in related fields were invited to
In addition, TFDA published the method for join the collaborative study of international
testing “COVID-19 rapid antigen test” and standards. TFDA is one of the few Asian
it makes the academic and biotech industrial national laboratories invited to take part in
laboratories be able to gain the techniques the collaborative study of the WHO first
required for COVID-19 rapid test development generation of SARS-CoV-2 international
and standardization. It also harmonizes standards and again in 2023 for the second
differences among laboratories and boosts the generation, indicating that the capabilities of
capacity to test the quality of rapid tests. our national laboratories are recognized by the
international community.
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