Patent ID: 6673621
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: C12Q,G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
A device suitable for marking a collected sample, comprising:collecting means for collecting the sample; and at least one detectable non-nucleic acid marker which is contained in at least a portion of the collecting means, wherein the at least one detectable non-nucleic acid marker is contactable with the sample upon collection of the sample to mark the collected sample upon contact of the sample with the at least a portion of the collecting means having the at least one detectable non-nucleic acid marker contained therein, and wherein the at least one detectable marker non-nucleic acid marker is other than a component which is already present in the sample and is inert to any component present in the sample; and wherein at least a portion of the detectable non-nucleic acid marker passes into all of a collected sample upon collection of the sample, and the non-nucleic acid marker marker is detectable in any portion of any sample that has been collected in the collecting means.