K011610 · Pan Probe Biotech, Inc. · LAF · Jun 8, 2001 · Clinical Toxicology
Device Facts
Record ID
K011610
Device Name
LIVESURE METHAMPHETAMINE SCREEN TESTS
Applicant
Pan Probe Biotech, Inc.
Product Code
LAF · Clinical Toxicology
Decision Date
Jun 8, 2001
Decision
SESE
Submission Type
Traditional
Regulation
21 CFR 862.3610
Device Class
Class 2
Attributes
3rd-Party Reviewed
Indications for Use
The Pan Probe Biotech LiveSure™ Methamphetamine Screen Test Card and Test Strip devices are rapid in vitro diagnostic (IVD) qualitative lateral flow immuno-chromatographic competitive urinary assays for the detection of Methamphetamine in human urine at the NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) and SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) cut-off level of 1,000 ng MET/ml. These tests are intended for visual, qualitative IVD screening, for professional use only, and are not intended for quantitative results, nor for over the counter sales. These screen tests for Methamphetamine provide only preliminary qualitative analytical data. A more specific quantitative alternative method must be used in order to obtain a confirmed analytical result. NIDA and SAMHSA have established gas chromatographic/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) as the preferred confirmatory method. Clinical considerations and professional judgment should be applied to any drug of abuse test result, particularly when preliminary positive results are indicated.
Device Story
Lateral flow competitive immunoassay; detects Methamphetamine in urine. Device consists of test card or strip with membrane pre-coated with Methamphetamine drug conjugate and control band. Pink anti-Methamphetamine monoclonal antibody-colloidal gold conjugate pad included. Sample migrates via capillary action; drug in sample competes with conjugate for antibody binding sites. Absence of drug allows antibody-gold to bind test band (visible pink line); presence of drug blocks binding (no test line). Control band confirms procedural validity. Used in clinical/forensic settings by professionals. Provides preliminary qualitative results; requires GC/MS confirmation. Benefits include rapid screening for drug presence.
Clinical Evidence
Clinical testing performed on 300 urine samples compared against GC/MS quantitative results and EMIT® II Assay. LiveSure™ Test Card showed 99.0% accuracy and Test Strip showed 98.3% accuracy versus GC/MS, compared to 97.0% for EMIT® II. Specificity for negatives was 98.2% for both formats. No false positives or false negatives were reported for the subject devices at ±25% of the 1000 ng/ml cut-off, whereas the predicate EMIT® II showed 1 false positive and 3 false negatives.
Technological Characteristics
Lateral flow immuno-chromatographic assay. Components: membrane pre-coated with Methamphetamine drug conjugate and control band; anti-Methamphetamine monoclonal antibody-colloidal gold conjugate pad. Qualitative visual readout. No external energy source required; relies on capillary action. Professional use only.
Indications for Use
Indicated for professional, qualitative in vitro diagnostic screening of human urine for Methamphetamine at a 1,000 ng/ml cut-off level. Not for over-the-counter use or quantitative analysis.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
A methamphetamine test system is a device intended to measure methamphetamine, a central nervous system stimulating drug, in serum, plasma, and urine. Measurements obtained by this device are used in the diagnosis and treatment of methamphetamine use or overdose.
Special Controls
*Classification.* Class II (special controls). A methamphetamine test system is not exempt if it is intended for any use other than employment or insurance testing or is intended for Federal drug testing programs. The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 862.9, provided the test system is intended for employment and insurance testing and includes a statement in the labeling that the device is intended solely for use in employment and insurance testing, and does not include devices intended for Federal drug testing programs (*e.g.,* programs run by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the U.S. military).
Predicate Devices
EMIT® II Assay
Submission Summary (Full Text)
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K011610
JUN - 8 2001
### SUMMARY STATEMENT OF SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS
The sponsor, Pan Probe Biotech, Inc., has developed, manufactured, and tested under GMP guidelines, an in vitro diagnostic device for the qualitative testing of une samples for the presence of Methamphetamine, its analogs or metabolites in a screening format.
The trade names of these devices are the Pan Probe Biotech LiveSure™ Methamphetamine Screen Test Card and Test Strip, having a designated common name of Methamphetamine Test Systems and classification as Class II devices as per listing 21 CFR 862.3610. These devices are intended for medical/forensic screening of urines for Methamphetamine.
The Pan Probe Biotech LiveSure™ Methamphetamine Screen Test and Test Strip (i.e., LiveSure™ Methamphetamine) are rapid qualitative competitive chromatographic immunoassays in which a chemically labeled drug conjugate competes with Methamphetamine drug, analogs or metabolites that may be present in test urinary samples for limited specific antibody binding sites. LiveSure™ Methamphetamine devices contain a unique membrane that has been pre-coated both with Methamphetamine drug conjugate at the test band, and have a builtin reference band with second antibody as a system control band. A pink colored anti-Methamphetamine monoclonal antibody-colloidal gold conjugate pad is placed on the right side of the test strip. In the absence of Methamphetamine drug, analogs or metabolites in the pink colored antibody-colloidal gold conjugate moves chromatographically along with the urinary sample on the capillary action. The antibodycolloidal gold conjugate binds to drug conjugate, forming an antibody-antigen complex binds to drug conjugate as a captured reagent at the test region and produces a visible pink colored band. When Methamphetamine is present in a test urine, that drug, analog or metabolite antigen competes with Methamphetamine conjugate at the test band region for the limited antibody sites on the antibody-colloidal gold conjugate. When a sufficient concentration of unnary Methamphetamine drug is present, it blocks limited antibody binding sites. This blockage-binding prevents attachment of pink colored antibody-colloidal gold conjugate to the Methamphetamine drug conjugate zone located at the LiveSure™ Methamphetamine test band region. To serve as a procedural control, a pink colored band in a control region will always appear regardless of presence of Methamphetamine in samples. Thus, negative unne samples produces two pink colored bands, while positive urine samples produce only one pink colored band.
In-house testing of LiveSure™ Methamphetamine Screen Test Card and Test Strip devices against EMIT® II Assay as a predicate provided data essentially showing equivalency between these devices and the predicate EMIT® II Assay. Additionally, independent clinical testing of 300 urine samples against LiveSure™ Methamphetamine Screen Test Card and Test Strip devices, as well as EMIT® II Assay at an external reference laboratory resulted in a 100% percent agreement with all GC/MS quantitative positive results. Moreover, LiveSure™ Methamphetamine Test Card gave a 98.2 agreement and the Test Strip gave a 97.0% agreement with GC/MS negative results. whereas EMIT II® yielded only a 96.4% correlation with GC/MS negatives. In comparing the Test Card and Test Strip positives with EMIT® II positives, a 97.8% and a 99.3% respective agreement with EMIT® II was found. Specificity of Test Card and Test Strip negatives with EMIT® II negatives was shown to be 98.2% of both. In terms of overall accuracy of values at and below the ±25% range of the NIDA/SAMHSA cut-off of 1000 ng/ml of Methamphetamine, however, the LiveSure™ Methamphetamine Screen Test Card and Strip yielded no false positives or false negative, but EMIT® II resulted in 1 false positives values for urine samples with GC/MS results below 750 ng/ml of Methamphetamine, and 3 false negative values for urine samples with GC/MS results above 1001 ng/ml of Methamphetamine. Finally, the LiveSure™ Methamphetamine Test Card and the Test Strip gave overall accuracy results of 297/300 (99.0%) and 295/300 (98.3%), respectively, versus GC/MS data, whereas 291/300 (97.0%) accuracy was obtained with EMIT®II. Thus, as judged against GC/MS results from an independent laboratory, the LiveSure™ Methamphetamine Test Card and Test Strip were determined to be equivalent in performance to each other and somewhat superior in capability versus assays with EMIT®II.
Additional information on this submission may be obtained by contacting Alice Yu, Vice President, Pan Probe Biotech, Inc. at: 858-689-9936 - or by fax at 858-689-6896.
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JUN - 8 2001
Food and Drug Administration 2098 Gaither Road Rockville MD 20850
James M. Barquest, Ph. D. Acting Chief Pan Probe Biotech, Inc. c/o California Department of Health Food & Drug Branch P.O. Box 942732 (MS-357) Sacramento, CA 94234
Re:
510(k) Number: K011610 STo(K) Name: Pan Probe Biotech LiveSure™ Methamphetamine Screen Tests Regulation Number: 862.3610 Regulatory Class: II Product Code: LAF Dated: May 21, 2001 Received: May 25, 2001
Dear Dr. Barquest:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) notification of intent to market the device referenced above and we have determined the device is substantially equivalent to devices marketed in interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device mendments, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Act). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration, listing of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration.
If your device is classified (see above) into either class II (Special Controls) or class III (Premarket Approval), it may be subject to such additional controls. Existing major regulations (1 commiser rippt of the found in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Parts 800 to 895. A substantially equivalent determination assumes compliance with the Good Manufacturing Practice for Medical Devices: General (GMP) regulation (21 CFR Part 820) and that, through periodic GMP inspections, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will verify such periodio CHIP mith the GMP regulation may result in regulation may result in regulatory action. In addition, FDA may publish further announcements concerning your device in the Federal addition, I Driving protize to your premarket notification submission submission does not affect reason. Flease now might have under sections 531 through 542 of the Act for devices under the any obtigation your and and and provisions, or other Federal laws or regulations.
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Enclosure
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# 510(k) Number (if known): K011610
# Device Name: Pan Probe Biotech LiveSure™ Methamphetamine Screen Tests
# INDICATIONS FOR USE STATEMENT:
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