The life of an autotest can range from six months to two years, depending on the products concerned. Once the expiry date has been speep, they are no longer usable.
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Alerts have multiplied to the point of going back to the Ministry of National Education. In recent weeks, boxes of expired autototes – or in the process of being – have been distributed to teachers working in schools. This is what about Twitter affirmed on January 20, Benjamin Bauna, a teacher of the schools and representative of South Education Paris: “In my school, we have just received ten boxes of ten autotot … but they permit in three days . “A photograph associated with the Tweet attests from the expiry date of the distributed kits.
In my school, we have just received 10 boxes of 10 autototes … but they permit in 3 days. Pity. Decidedly … https://t.co/mslbttnlxs “/p>- bnbaune (@benjamin baune)
Sophie Venetiy, professor of economics and social sciences in a high school of Essonne and Secretary General of SNES-FSU, first union in high school, delivers the same experience: “The week [January 17], we received Several boxes of autototes that permit on January 30th. According to the lifts that we have, it seems that the situation is similar in many institutions. “
Past the expiry date, the autototes are no longer usable. Fabien Larue, General Manager of AZ, one of the French manufacturers, and supplier of more than 2 million products to national education in the spring of 2021, recalls that “the date of expiry should not be exceeded. At home, in the laboratory or pharmacy “. “Beyond that, the stability of reagents used is no longer ensured.” The life of a self-test can range from six months to two years, according to the products concerned.
Surprise and anger at Teachers
While teachers were called to strike and demonstrate, Thursday, January 27, to claim salary uptons, which is enough to lengthen the list of tensions that scramble the relations between the unions and the Ministry of the ‘National Education. “We have lived this with surprise and anger, it is a sign of more contempt and an umpteenth cake in the management of the health crisis in schools, colleges and high schools,” says Sophie Venetiy. Especially as photographs broadcast on social networks by several teachers arrest. Example: Why a box of autototes manufactured the May 2021, and whose expiry date was scheduled for January 30, 2022, was only delivered on January 20?
In a statement released Wednesday, January 26, the Ministry of National Education first confirmed that “some lifts of schools and institutions report in recent weeks of receipt of autototes arriving at the end period of validity or expired “. Nevertheless, it indicates that, “since the return of the Christmas holidays, there is no more autototes to academies or institutions”. “The self-qualifiers of which it is very likely delivered to the academies during operations of 2021,” adds the press release.
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