Alpha Laboratories offers a range of swabs that are manufactured in a quality audited environment only accessed by specially trained personnel, wearing protective clothing. To ensure and improve sustainable product quality, every batch is reviewed by an independent laboratory.

Products with a sterility assurance level (SAL) of 10–6 carry the blue Sterile Plus mark. Products certified free of PCR inhibitors have the yellow PCR Ready mark.

• The swabs are manufactured in ISO class 8 or higher clean room conditions under an ISO 13485 accredited quality system
• Swabs that are CE marked for IVD conform to the MDD 93/42/EEC for Class IIa
• Certified free of PCR inhibitors, human DNA, RNase, DNase, and pyrogens
• Where swabs are marked as sterile, this is by irradiation or EtO
• Available in various packaging formats:
  • Bulk packs ideal for diagnostic kit assembly
  • Single swab peel-packs ideal for POC testing.

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