Thu Sep 7, 2023 – 11:26 am EDTThu Sep 7, 2023 – 12:54 pm EDT STORY AT-A-GLANCE In mid-December 2022, an illegal Chinese medical lab was discovered in Reedley, California, in a dilapidated warehouse. The company, Universal Meditech Inc. – which was operating without a state license or other required permits – was manufacturing a wide variety of test kits, including pregnancy tests, ovulation tests, COVID-19 test kits, and various drug tests. The lab was found to be improperly storing at least 20 infectious agents, including E. coli, coronavirus, malaria, hepatitis B and C, dengue, chlamydia, herpes, rubella, and HIV. Investigations were launched by local, state, and federal authorities, all of whom concluded there was no criminal activity going on at the lab, nor any evidence that the lab posed a threat to public health or national security. August 11, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about several of the tests produced in the Reedley lab. Universal Meditech has also issued a recall of tests that have already been sent to distributors, but not for tests that have already reached consumers. While the investigation into the illicit lab began in late
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