As of October 5, Talent Testing Services (TTS) will no longer send clearance data to the PASS database.

Aside from clearance reporting into the PASS database, nothing is changing about the testing system.

Talent and crew can still test with TTS, they will just have to check and share results using the TTS dashboard. While we will no longer have a formal contract with TTS, we continue to maintain open lines of communication and expect them to be collaborative in the event of a production hold.

TTS decided to withdraw from the PASS database after they were informed that no PASS testing partners would be allowed to participate in a PASS advisory committee. While PASS respects and welcomes opinions from all of our testing partners, we believe it represents a conflict of interest for for-profit vendors to directly influence industry guidelines. PASS will continue to consult public health and clinical experts to inform our policies.

As TTS has its own test authentication system with a scannable verification code, so their participation in the Free Speech’s PASS program was just redundancy, as a sort of courtesy to those who wanted to use the system, but since they have full verification in place, most performers use them anyway.

As a reminder, never do a scene or film any content without first always checking the validity of a test. You can easily do this by going to the Talent Testing website, and clicking AUTHENTICATE from the main menu.

• You can follow PASS on Twitter at @PASScertified.
• You can follow TTS on Twitter at @talenttesting.