Armored RNA Quant^® EPA 1615 Controls

Armored Controls have been utilized in IVD-approved assays for more than 20 years and continue to serve as an important tool in the rapidly evolving space of molecular diagnostics. In 2010, Asuragen partnered with the US EPA to create an Armored enteric control in an effort to standardize the measurement of Enterovirus and Norovirus in water by RT-qPCR. Method 1615 was published later that year and updated in 2014 as a joint publication between the US EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory and the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water. It reduces equipment costs and time associated with labor in collection and detection of biologics from ground, reagent-grade, and surface water samples and includes the use of Armored RNA Quant^® EPA-1615 as a positive reference and our Armored RNA^® HGV product as an inhibition control.

This control was designed as a single, concatenated construct of Enterovirus, Norovirus Genotype I, and Norovirus Genotype II to allow for the maximum testing of a single control.