According to "KYPE", in a letter, the president of the Guild, Prodromos Christofi referred to the recent announcement of a group of individuals and relevant publications in the press, after laboratory analysis, swabs which are used for rapid tests and PCR examinations of children and adults in public hospitals where the presence of ethylene oxide was detected, at a concentration level multiple (36x) of the detection limit of the applied method.
The Council notes that rapid antigen tests and laboratory tests (PCR tests) are performed by taking a sample from the nose using a swab (in the case of PCR tests, the swab penetrates deeper into the nasopharynx, something that which used to apply to rapid tests).
Stresses that this substance is toxic / dangerous (carcinogenic, mutagenic, toxic to reproduction) even if inhaled, according to the European Chemicals Agency, while according to a statement from the Ministry of Health which, although it concerns food, shows that the handling of products containing the substance must be based on the principles of precaution and prevention.
He points out that a significant part of the population submits at regular intervals (every 72 hours) to the specific types of examinations, in order to be entitled to work, study and more.
"Due to the seriousness of the issue, since it concerns the safety and health of thousands of workers and other vulnerable and non-vulnerable groups of the population", the Association calls for a proper, objective, transparent and independent investigation of the safety of the examinations in question, both by the Ministry Health and from accredited laboratories of the private sector ".
It also calls for the "suspension of the above examinations until their safety is proven".