FDA Clears Roche's Vitamin D Laboratory Test

Roche has received clearance from the FDA for a fully automated vitamin D test for use on cobas? modular platforms.

Roche has received clearance from the U.S. FDA for a fully automated vitamin D test for use on cobas? modular platforms, further expanding the company's bone metabolism test menu.

Vitamin D is an important building block for human health and is mainly produced in the skin by exposure to sunlight. Vitamin D deficiency plays a major role in bone metabolism disorders, and in recent years studies have linked vitamin D deficiency with many other disease states, including cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

"The demand for vitamin D testing in the U.S. is increasing rapidly, and having a large installed base of cobas analyzers will allow labs to easily respond to that demand and integrate the Roche test into their existing workflow," said Daniel O' Day, chief operating offic