It belongs to medical waste and is disposed of by the relevant staff.
The sampling swabs used for testing, along with other medical wastes, are transported to the Hazardous Waste Center by staff driving closed vans for centralized incineration.
The whole process of entering the incineration center workshop until incineration will be sterilized. Staff wearing protective clothing will be unloaded from the transfer of medical waste under the car, loaded into the bucket lifter.
In the monitoring room, staff can remotely command the bucket elevator in the incineration plant. By operating the computer, the bucket lifter will automatically pour the medical waste from the inside into the boiler and start burning, with a minimum controlled temperature of 1,100 degrees Celsius inside the combustion chamber. Here, a swab for nucleic acid testing is turned into an ash residue and then disposed of in a landfill.
Medical waste incineration of smoke, but also need to use slaked lime, activated carbon and other post-harmless treatment. In addition to incineration, medical waste can also be turned into domestic waste through high-temperature steaming, and then sent to power plants for incineration to generate electricity.
Nucleic Acid Sampling Collection Method
The tester will collect several samples of each 200ul for full mixing (about 5 sampling bodies) to form a mixed sample to be tested. The test results were first determined one by one for the tested gene loci in accordance with the requirements of the instruction manual of each test kit.
Mixed samples that are positive for any locus or have detectable Ct values are treated as retests and subjected to single-sample nucleic acid testing in accordance with conventional methods.