08-08-2020, 06:51 PM
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Re: Care Homes Thrown under a bus
Originally Posted by Omah
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Coronavirus: Randox recalls up to 750,000 test kits over safety concernshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53705229
Another government procurement shambles .....
I don't think people or governments go and deliberately buy faulty goods. Probably a precaution not to use these. It happens a lot, that's the medical industry for you.
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Just checked its just the sample kits that have an issue, nothing to do with the kits themselves just the sampling. I would put £50 on that its because of labelling or blinding.
Nothing to see here.....
08-08-2020, 08:09 PM
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Re: Care Homes Thrown under a bus
Originally Posted by Bread
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I don't think people or governments go and deliberately buy faulty goods. Probably a precaution not to use these. It happens a lot, that's the medical industry for you.Edit
Just checked its just the sample kits that have an issue, nothing to do with the kits themselves just the sampling. I would put £50 on that its because of labelling or blinding (sic).
Nothing to see here.....
As a precaution, the government says the kits made by Randox should not be used until further notice.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-sterile.html
As part of the deal, swabs are posted to people's houses, care homes and testing facilities and sent back to Randox to be processed in its labs and give a diagnosis.
So tests made by the manufacturer likely account for a huge chunk of the 150,000 swabs being carried out every day in Britain.
Concerns about the safety of the tests were raised on Wednesday when it emerged a Chinese firm which supplies the swabs to Randox had not provided safety assurance documents. This prompted the UK to carry out physical inspections of the kits.
A health source told the Sun: 'Spot checks found that swabs in the kit were not sterile. It means samples taken from patients could be contaminated, affecting results.
'Although there is low risk to the public, half a million have been withdrawn as precautionary measure.'
17-08-2020, 02:40 PM
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Re: Care Homes Thrown under a bus
Originally Posted by Omah
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The swabs in some batches of one brand of coronavirus home-test kits are "not up to standard", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.As a precaution, the government says the kits made by Randox should not be used until further notice.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-sterile.html
Why do you have to sensationalise what happens in the real world all the time as something that's deliberately done by he tories as part of your crackpot conspiracy theory ?
Detectability is a great thing, Omah.
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