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summary_short: Official XPRIZE Rapid Testing Competition letter authorizing the shipment of blinded proficiency test kits to 219 semi-finalist teams across 35 countries, documenting that kits contain non-hazardous, non-infectious contrived samples including gamma-irradiated cell line products and synthetic RNA for research use only.


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***INTERNAL TITLE:*** XPRIZE Rapid Testing Competition - Shipping Information

This letter serves to provide written documentation, in order to aid in any customs preclearance processes, that the organization/entity (included in list below) is participating as a semifinalist team in the XPRIZE Rapid Testing competition. In order to participate, the listed team has authorization to receive, via FedEx, International and/or Domestic shipping, a blinded proficiency test kit.

This shipment they are receiving contains a test kit for research use only and has no commercial value.

The kit does not contain hazardous chemicals. No infectious agents have been added to any of the samples. Sample targets in the antigen test kit include gamma-irradiated cell line products and purified recombinant proteins. Targets in the RNA test kit include chemically-inactivated cell line products and synthetic RNA.

## Official Semi-Finalist List
- Total Semi-Finalist Teams: 219
- Total Countries: 35

| **Team Name** | **Country** |
|----------------------------------------------------|----------------|
| u-Smell-it' - A Rapid Chemosensory Test | United States |
| 19-Xolution | Thailand |
| 1DROP | Switzerland |
| 1tube | United States |
| 3D-Liberty Dx | Australia |
| Aardvark Medical | United States |
| Access Sensor Technologies | United States |
| Accessible Health | United States |
| AEGEA Biotechnologies | United States |
| Allele Biotech COVID | United States |
| ALMAdotcare | Belgium |
| Alveo | United States |
| American Molecular Dx | United States |
| Ampharco | Vietnam |
| ApharSeq | Israel |
| API Pharma LLC | United States |
| API Pharma USA | United States |
| ArcDia mariPOC | Finland |
| Ascella | United States |
| ASSURED | United States |
| Atom Bioworks Inc | United States |
| Avicena Systems 1 | Australia |
| Azar Utah | United States |
| BacterioScan Inc a Delaware corporation | United States |
| Baebies Inc | United States |
| Base Pair Biotechnologies | United States |
| Berking Biotechnology | Chile |
| BGI PATHOGENESIS | China |
| Biocartis US Inc , a Delaware corporation | United States |
| BioGlass | United States |
| Biology Works | United States |
| Biomeme | United States |
| Bioneer | Korea, South |
| BIOPOLYGEN-USA | United States |
| BioSafety Technologies | Israel |
| BLADE Doctors Advanz Testing | United States |
| Boston Biopharma | United States |
| BrewMetrix | United States |
| Buoyant And Magnetic (BAM) Assays | United States |
| Burnet CSC | Australia |
| BVS - Rapid CV-19 With IVDS Technology | United States |
| Canary | United States |
| Cellex | United States |
| ChromaCode | United States |
| CIDx | United States |
| Clip COVID Rapid Antigen Test by Luminostics, Inc | United States |
| Colorimetric RT-LAMP SARS-CoV-2 Research Group | Spain |
| CoronaDetective | Switzerland |
| COVI-SPOT | United States |
| CoviCat | United States |
| COVID 19 Instant Testing & Contact Tracing | United States |
| COVID Bulldogs | United States |
| COVID Continuum | United States |
| COVID No More | Romania |
| CovidNudge | United Kingdom |
| CovidOff | United States |
| COVIDQuickDx | United States |
| COVIDscanDX | United States |
| CovidScope | United States |
| COVIDTell | United Kingdom |
| COVIDXpress | United States |
| COVIRAP(IITKGP) | India |
| CRISP19 | Chile |
| CRISPR-ENHANCE | United States |
| Crystal Diagnostics | United States |
| Dascena | United States |
| Dawatek | United States |
| Diaxxo | Switzerland |
| DISCOPLEX | United States |
| Dr Vida Pocket | Portugal |
| Duke Human Vaccine Institute | United States |
| easyRNA | United States |
| EDNA Dx | United States |
| Electronic Pathogen Detection | United Kingdom |
| Encode Health | United Kingdom |
| Enose-Diagnostics | United States |
| ExosomeDx | United States |
| Extraordinary Innovations LLC | United States |
| FIGHTING COVID 19 | China |
| FloodLAMP | United States |
| Front Line Technologies | United States |
| Galileo - TUNE VID APP | Argentina |
| GenapSys | United States |
| Genesprint-Infrawear | United States |
| GeneSurge | Germany |
| GENOME RESEARCH LIMITED | United Kingdom |
| GoNoGo | United States |
| Grapheal | France |
| Great North Research & Innovation | United Kingdom |
| Happy Lampers | United States |
| Harmony | United States |
| HAYAT | Turkey |
| Hepione | France |
| Highfield Diagnostics | United Kingdom |
| HolographicDiagnostics | United States |
| Hyris | Italy |
| Illucidx | Canada |
| IMT-Detect | Romania |
| Insta-Spot Rapid COVID-19 Point-of-Care Test | United States |
| iSPOT 1 | United States |
| iSPOT 2 | United States |
| KAYA17 | United States |
| Kidod Virion Test | Israel |
| Kinaptic | United States |
| Kunumi | Brazil |
| Lactiga | Canada |
| LAMP-IVD 1 | Australia |
| LAMP-Seq | Germany |
| LessTests | Israel |
| Life Test Ruta N Medellin | Colombia |
| LJI | United States |
| LOMT Pool Testing | Italy |
| LooK SPOT System | Canada |
| Low-Cost Swab to Answer Rapid Covid Test | United States |
| macgyver 1 | Slovakia |
| Medical Diagnostech | South Africa |
| Mikro | Taiwan |
| Mirimus | United States |
| Mmolecular Covid Test | Hong Kong |
| Mobile Xpress Clinics | United States |
| Molecular Mirror | United States |
| Molecular Systems Lab | United States |
| My Rapid Test 1 | Canada |
| My Rapid Test 2 | Canada |
| My Rapid Test 3 | United States |
| my110 | United Kingdom |
| Nabors3D | United States |
| Nanomix | United States |
| Narwhal | United States |
| NDX | United States |
| Neff Lab | United States |
| NEXTGENPCR | Netherlands |
| ni2o inc | United States |
| NowAware | United States |
| NuFaction | United States |
| Oceanit Labs | United States |
| OmniVis | United States |
| Oncophenomics | India |
| OnCovid | India |
| OneRNADx | United States |
| OnsiteGene 1 | United States |
| OnsiteGene 2 | United States |
| OnsiteGene 3 | United States |
| OnsiteGene 4 | United States |
| Ontera | United States |
| Open Science | United States |
| Open-Isothermal-Platforms Dx | Australia |
| PanDemiX | United States |
| PathogenDx | United States |
| PHASE | United States |
| Pinpoint Science | United States |
| Plasmonic PCR | Canada |
| Plenary Research | United States |
| POLAR | United States |
| Poseidon | Singapore |
| PREDICT | United States |
| PreDxion Bio | United States |
| Prime Discoveries | United States |
| Project Lifetime | United States |
| Prompt | United States |
| ProtectLife-AnTaimmu | Taiwan |
| Qanik | Canada |
| Qbiotix | United Kingdom |
| Quaeris | United States |
| Quantification by Design | United States |
| Ram Global | Germany |
| Reliable-LFC, LLC | United States |
| Ricovr Healthcare | United States |
| RNAPath | United States |
| Rosbash | United States |
| SalivaStudyTeam | Germany |
| SANATA | Canada |
| Sante Nano | Canada |
| Scope Fluidics and Curiosity Diagnostics | Poland |
| Scripps Research Institute | United States |
| SensingSelf Mission | Singapore |
| Sensingself Mission 1 | Singapore |
| seqWell | United States |
| SHIELD - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| SHINE | United States |
| Simply the Best | Korea, South |
| Single Cycle PCR | United States |
| SiPhox | United States |
| SLINTEC CoronaHunter | Sri Lanka |
| Sol Scientifics | Belgium |
| Sphere | United States |
| Sprightly Health | United States |
| Stanford Microfluidics Lab | United States |
| Steradian Technologies | United States |
| SUREARLY SMART PRO | Korea, South |
| Tapestry | United States |
| Team Genviro | United States |
| Team REVApro | United States |
| Team Spectra | Morocco |
| Team Thylacine-MitoLab | United States |
| TeamPBI | United States |
| Tech4Health | United States |
| Thairanos Rx | Thailand |
| TiMES-Now | United States |
| Tracense systems | Israel |
| UbiDX | United States |
| Ubiquitous Diagnostics | India |
| UCSF COV-ID1 | United States |
| UCSF COV-ID2 | United States |
| UCSF COV-ID3 | United States |
| Unima | Mexico |
| Valetude Primus Healthcare | India |
| VBC-LAMP | Austria |
| VeralizeDevice | United States |
| VERIFAST | United States |
| Veritas PCR Now | United States |
| Viral Testing Inc | Canada |
| ViralAlert | United States |
| WellSIM | United States |
| wePool AI - Intelligent & Efficient Pooled Testing | United States |
| Worlds PROTECT | United States |
| XENOGENE | Spain |
| XING | Australia |
| Zethea | United States |
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On Behalf of the XPRIZE Rapid Testing Competition:

Lisa Covington PMP, Prize Lead
XPRIZE Foundation
800 Corporate Pointe, Suite 350
Culver City, CA 90230
U.S.A

Phone: 310-741-4880
Fax: 310-741-4974
https://www.xprize.org