Description

Technical Parameters

Product composition:

1. Sample collection tube, 1pc:

Size of Φ16×100mm, capacity of 10ml. Tube body and cap are made by Polypropylene, No deformation after HTHP(121˚C, 15min), no embrittlement under low temperature (-196˚C). it can bear static extrusion and dynamic impact. Taper bottom design makes it bear centrifugation and shaking. Leakage proof.

2. Sample storage liquid, 3.5ml:

According to vast test of the influence to cells among Basic liquid, buffer system, protein stabilizer, freezing protective agent, amino acid, We summarize a formula which is most applicable for the virus storage. It can keep a high efficiency for virus storage, and largely increase the positive rate of virus culture.

3. Sampling swab, 1pc:

Flocking Nylon swab, No toxic to the cells and virus. RNAse free. It can increase the collecting and releasing of the specimen in the largest degree, which can ensure positive result in PCR tests. The plastic sticker is made by ABS material, unique design make it easy to break off. No fragment when breaking off the sticker.

Apple announced that it would allocate $10 million from its advanced manufacturing fund to support Copan diagnostics to expand the production of its sample collection products (i.e., swabs) and transport components in response to the spread of the new coronavirus. Meanwhile, apple is helping Copan buy Industrial equipment, design new factories, hire employees and wait for Copan to move in and start work.

Although $10 million is a small amount compared to the $5 billion total from the advanced manufacturing fund, it is the first time Apple has funded companies outside its supply chain.

Before that, Apple's advanced manufacturing fund had three expenditures, with a total investment of $1bn in Corning, a precision glass supplier, Finisar, a laser chip supplier, and elysis, a carbon free aluminum supplier. Elysee has only $10 million.

Copan is not in Apple's supply chain, and the production of "cotton swabs" doesn't seem to have much technological content. This makes people wonder why Apple really makes Apple look good.

Apple hopes to make up for the lack of cotton swabs in the United States.

On March 16, the U.S. air force used a C-17 transport plane to transport 500000 cotton swabs from Italy to Tennessee to detect the new coronavirus.

At a subsequent press conference, the air force general explained that the cotton swabs were made by an American company. That means we didn't rob, we just got our stuff back.

However, the motivation for this "bandit" behavior is not hard to understand. After all, in the current outbreak, the swabs needed to detect new coronaviruses in the United States are extremely rare.

Later, Scott Gottlieb, former head of the food and drug administration, tweeted: "cotton swabs may be a weak link in expanding the scope of testing." Last month, a doctor at the New York hospital also warned that all cotton swabs at the New York hospital would soon run out.

Us nasal swab collection website, Wall Street Journal

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