HPU 24 hour Urine Test
This receptable used for collection and transport of a HPU 24 hour urine contains:
1.Rigid Safetybag (receptables for the transport of diagnostic specimens like urine):
– a plastic PE safety bag as secondary packaging (180 x 105 mm, 3 gram, 7 µm thick);
– a hard PP protective sleeve (100 x 65 x 22 mm, 8 gram);
– absorbing envelope wrapped around the sleeve (110 x 80 mm), 1.6 gram;
– a CE polypropylen transport tube with polyethylen cap (HD-PE) (10 ml, 92 x 15.3 mm RCF 3000 x g);
– containing 0.5 g ascorbic acid 99.9% for medical purposes (food supplement) as preservative;
– a CE LD-PE Transfer pipette (6 ml, 146 mm) for the transfer of urine from collection device to the transport tube.
2. Documents
– Laboratory request sheet
– Sampling instructions
3. Collection bottle
– a 3.0 l brown CE PE urine collection device (container/bottle) with transparen graduation strip and yellow PP cap (246 x 130 mm);
– a 500 ml PP transfer container 148×80 mm for urine collection (normally positioned under the yellow cap);
– Ascorbic acid for medical purposes 6 gram as stabilisator.
4. Cardboard box for return shipment
– a cardboard box with postage-free return address 171 x 124 x 27 mm
– two transparent round stickers to close the box
Abbreviations used
CE Conformité Européenne
HD High density
LD Low density
PE Polyethylen
PP Polypropylen
RCF Relative Centrifugal Force (RCF) or Relative Centrifugal Accelertion is the
amount of acceleration to be applied to the sample. It depends on the amount of
revolutions per minute (RPM) and the radius of the rotor, and is relative to the
force of Earth’s gravity.
