Replies to post #945 on Calypte Biomedical Corp (fka CBMC)

[cal_pn]

expected market clearance in China - coinstarz

<<< I think BDA will approve HIV aware OMT 1/2 in March. This is my opinion.>>>

That would be great absolutely, I hope you are right
but honestly I won't take this expedited review as granted. The company didn't mention expedited review in the PR so there is no guarantee for it.

China is always hard to predict although the accepted filing was very very huge already. It looks like the filing has been prepared in close collaboration with the Chinese authorities which could facilite things tremendously. Very important when doing business in Asia. In fact the acceptance of the filing represented two steps forward. Don't like to sound too pessimistic here.

My hope always was that sales in Africa together with BED would carry us through 2006 until break-even and China sales numbers would send us far behind the profitibility line afterwards. I hope Africa gives us some progress soon too.

Cal

[coinstarz]

Dig out my old post regarding China FDA approval calendar. Looks like they are using 45 working days (35 + 10) or 70+/- days starting from Jan. 16. So March 26-March 28 is the date for the news. Do or Die, let's see.