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Re: shabby47 post# 8472

Friday, 01/31/2014 4:53:12 PM

Friday, January 31, 2014 4:53:12 PM

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That is a really excellent point, Shabby.

In fact, any institution, whether business, medical, or government, can always use BNP or BNF alongside more traditional accepted methods in order to get an early warning of a pathogen potentially being present. They can still wait for the confirmation from the other tests, but having that early warning could be invaluable. There's not much downside. The chances are low that a false positive ID would be made of a specific organism.

As you state, in the case of a food supplier it could save $millions (and possibly lives) by simply delaying a shipment pending confirmation by traditional methods.