Shelf lives of some COVID test kits
The FDA regularly updates the life spans of at-home tests on its website. As of mid-June, these were the shelf lives of some popular test kits, according to the agency:
BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card Home Test (Abbott Diagnostics Scarborough Inc.): Extended to 15 months from 12 months
BinaxNOW COVID-19 Antigen Self Test (Abbott Diagnostics Scarborough Inc.): Extended to 15 months from 12 months
CareStart COVID-19 Antigen Home Test (Access Bio Inc.): Extended to 12 months from 9 months
Flowflex COVID-19 Antigen Home Test (ACON Laboratories Inc.): Extended to 16 months from 12 months
BD Veritor At-Home COVID-19 Test (Becton, Dickinson and Co.): 6 months
Celltrion DiaTrust COVID-19 Ag Home Test (Celltrion USA Inc.): Extended to 18 months from 12 months
Cue COVID-19 Test for Home and Over the Counter (OTC) Use (Cue Health Inc.): 4 months
Detect COVID-19 Test (Detect Inc.): Extended to 8 months from 6 months
Ellume COVID-19 Home Test (Ellume Ltd.): 12 months
iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test (iHealth Labs Inc.): Extended to 9 months from 6 months
SCoV-2 Ag Detect Rapid Self-Test (InBios International Inc.): Extended to 10 months from 6 months
Lucira Check-It COVID-19 Test Kit (Lucira Health Inc.): 6 months
MaximBio ClearDetect COVID-19 Antigen Home Test (Maxim Biomedical Inc.):
6 months
InteliSwab COVID-19 Rapid Test (OraSure Technologies Inc.): 9 months
OHC COVID-19 Antigen Self Test (OSANG LLC): 8 months
INDICAID COVID-19 Rapid Antigen At-Home Test (PHASE Scientific International Ltd.): 12 months
QuickVue At-Home OTC COVID-19 Test (Quidel Corp.): 12 months
Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Test (SD Biosensor Inc.): 6 months
CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen SelfTest (Siemens Healthineer): 11 months
Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Test Card (Xiamen Boson Biotech Co. Ltd.): 6 months