Information about Flocked Swabs. How they work and why they are different to traditional polyester or rayon fiber swabs

5. Current state-of-the-art of clinical swabs

6. 1 - 2 miles of fiber
Samples is dispersed and trapped inside
the fiber wound mattress

7. EM – fiber swab

8. Fibers adhere to the glue coated
applicator tip in a perpendicular fashion

9. EM – flocked swab

10. Fiber swabs have 1 mile of fiber
10 x more sample is
Flocked swab have 1 yard of fiber released

11. Illustration showing the
differences between
how a sample is
absorbed in a traditional
mattress fiber wound
swab and new Flocked
Swabs
Flocked
Swab
Tight or fluffy / loose