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quality test kit finds infection in wastewater to guide communities in fighting disease
Field test kit used in Israel shows lab-quality results for worldwide application
FREDsense announced this week that it is showing positive results from a pilot in Israel involving its patented FRED-Extract System. Taking a giant leap forward in community monitoring for infectious diseases in wastewater and in the field of wastewater epidemiology, an in-field pilot shows lab-comparable water quality test results at 20 percent of the regular costs and in half the wait time. This pilot was a collaboration among FREDsense, Kando Environmental Services, Ben Gurion University in Israel and Elemental Excelerator.
The three-phase pilot was born after Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit climate tech investor with a portfolio of more than 150 startups, awarded FREDsense an ¡®Ohana Award prize for this project. The ¡®Ohana Award celebrates collaboration and synergy, providing up to $100,000 for projects that outline how multiple companies in Elemental¡¯s portfolio partner across geography and product to implement new strategic, transformative and collaborative projects with impact.
Since many infectious diseases can be found in fecal matter (including COVID-19), wastewater samples – such as sewage – are the medium of choice for governments, universities, corporations and others to assess the health of a population. FREDsense provided its FRED-Extract system for analysis as well as training and troubleshooting support for the testing performed in Israel.
Ben Gurion University and Professor Jacob Moran-Gilad provided qPCR data comparison and performed testing in Phases I and II. Testing found the United States Center for Disease Control N1 target of the COVID-19 genome, which was detected in 96 percent of instances in Phase I of testing showing the test could be used for effective identification of viruses in wastewater. A larger test with 99 wastewater samples was conducted as a Phase II test, in the field, resulting in approximately 80 percent detection under these more challenging circumstances.
Kando Environmental Services provided access to samples for SARS-CoV-2 analysis and performed Phase III testing in the field, demonstrating close results in a short time. Elemental Excelerator provided support, funding and set the stage for the relationship between Kando and FREDsense.
¡°Water quality is so important to our lives and the pandemic illustrated how wastewater can be vital to keeping people safe in changing circumstances. Elemental¡¯s Ohana Award shows how working together allows us to use water quality to inform public health outcomes in real-time with results that support communities and decision-makers,¡± said David Lloyd, co-founder and chief executive officer of FREDsense.
The resulting FRED-Extract system can rapidly extract purified genetic material from wastewater samples, enabling the on-site analysis of COVID-19 at less than $100 USD per sample, versus the cost of using a traditional lab, significantly higher per sample.
¡°At Elemental, we are committed to our mission to redesign the systems at the root of climate change,¡± Elemental Senior Director of Innovation Kim Baker said. ¡°We were elated to collaborate and invest in this project that brought together FREDsense and Kando, empowering them to move forward on testing a solution that is more cost-effective and can be deployed quickly in communities to bring critical knowledge to global health.¡±
Many traditional, current wastewater testing practices are obsolete, and the wider adaptation of FREDsense dispenses with the old methods relying on off-site analytical labs with highly trained personnel. While accurate, the old methods are slow and expensive. This results in a reluctance to test frequently, and the subsequent lack of data means that key data could be missed.
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