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- Description
- Inventors have developed products to reduce the risk of infection. Health care workers now routinely disable or dispose of used needles in secure "sharps" containers.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- device, syringe destroying
- safety device, hypodermic
- date made
- ca. 2007
- ca 2007
- maker
- Becton, Dickinson and Company
- place made
- Singapore
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 5/8 in x 5 in x 2 1/2 in; 11.7475 cm x 12.7 cm x 6.35 cm
- overall: 4 1/2 in x 5 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 13.0175 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- 2007.0198.141
- accession number
- 2007.0198
- catalog number
- 2007.0198.141
- Credit Line
- Gift of Becton, Dickinson and Company
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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