A-A-53057
13 July 1987
COMMERCIAL ITEM DESCRIPTION
SWAB, CULTURE (Calcium Alginate Wool Tipped)
The General Services Administration has authorized the use of this commercial item description in preference to Military Specification MIL-S-36860 for type I swabs.
This commercial item description covers a sterile and nonbacteriostatic calcium alginate swab with a flexible aluminum wire handle.
Salient characteristics.
Shall be a sterile, nonbacteriostatic calcium alginate tipped swab for obtaining cultures (e.g. from the nasopharynx).
Shall have a nominal overall length of 5-5/16 inches.
Shall be in the form of a soft flexible aluminum wire shaft that is tipped on one end with calcium alginate wool. The other end of the wire shaft shall have a loop.
Shall have a wire shaft handle fabricated from 0.035 inch (nominal) diameter wire.
Shall be tipped with sufficient calcium alginate wool to provide a tip length of at least 1/4 inches and a tip diameter of not less than 1/16 inches.
Shall be supplied in a sterile condition.
Shall have the calcium alginate wool processed and supplied with no detectable bacteriostatic activity.
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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