Specimen Bottles And Their Uses

A cylindrical small glass bottle with a screw cap used as a culture medium holder biosafety cabinet.

Specimen bottles and their uses. Purple blood bottles are generally used for haematology tests where whole blood is required for analysis. To collect blood by venipuncture. Specimen collection containers consist of any number shape and size of container for collecting urine stool mucus or other type of bodily fluids. Used to hold vacutainer needle and the vacutainer tube while collecting blood specimen.

Used to work with dangerous organisms and to work sterile blood collection bottle. Purple blood bottles contain edta ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid which acts as a potent anticoagulant by binding to calcium in the blood. The list below lists the most commonly used blood collection tubes their additives and uses in laboratory. Purple blood bottle overview.

Please call 6278 9188 to request for other supplies. Other supplies include non vacutainer collection tubes thin prep vial with cytobrush etc. The red bottle is less common it is used for biochemistry tests requiring serum which might be adversely affected by the separator gel used in the yellow bottle. Edta also binds metal ions in the blood and is used in chelation therapy to treat iron lead or mercury.