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Launch of Salistick™ saliva pregnancy test
Launch of Salistick™ saliva pregnancy test.
About this update from Abingdon Health Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n \nAbingdon Health plc\n(\"Abingdon Health\" or \"the Company\")\n \nLaunch of Salistick™ saliva pregnancy test\nSuperdrug to sell Salistick™, the first ever saliva pregnancy test, initially in 400 stores and online\nSalistick™ also to launch on Abingdon Simply Test website\n \nYork, U.K. 19 June 2023: Abingdon Health plc (AIM: ABDX), a leading international lateral flow contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), announces the launch of Salistick™, the first-ever saliva pregnancy test, in the UK and Ireland.\n \nSalistick™ offers women an improved user experience, with high accuracy for early pregnancy detection, by way of its revolutionary and patented saliva technology which allows for saliva to be used as a sample rather than the traditional urine tests. Salistick™ offers the ability to test anywhere, anytime, and for the testing experience to be shared with a partner and other loved ones.\n \nAbingdon is the exclusive distributor of Salistick™ in the UK and Ireland on behalf of Salignostics Ltd, an Israeli developer of innovative saliva-based diagnostics tests. As well as providing distribution support, Abingdon has been providing Salignostics with contract development services in scaling-up the Salistick™ product for manufacture and will continue to provide Salignostics with contract manufacturing services going forward.\n \nAbingdon is launching Salistick™ with Superdrug, a leading health and beauty retailer in the United Kingdom, initially rolling out into 400 stores and online at Superdrug.com. Superdrug trades from almost 900 stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland.\n \nIn addition, Salistick™ will also launch through Abingdon's direct-to-consumer e-commerce channel Abingdon Simply Test. Salistick™ is co-branded Abingdon Simply Test™, with the Abingdon Simply Test™ range now including over 15 self-tests. Abingdon intends to continue expanding the range of innovative self-tests it makes available to consumers through partnering with companies such as Salignostics Ltd to offer the very best in novel self-test technology to the market.\n \nIt is estimated that 12.5 million pregnancy tests were performed in the UK in 2022(1). The global pregnancy test kits market was valued at USD 1.70 billion in 2022 and is expected to reach USD 2....