Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed)
Professor Mary Keogan:
Okay. It is widely publicised on the Internet that if this is done with diet coke one can get a false positive. This was done with tonic water because it does not stain down below and this looks like a positive. As one can produce a positive like this, it is recommended any sort of positivity based on self-testing should be confirmed. These tests do not have a proper control in them and are open to manipulation.
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