The US Food and Drug Administration has given its nod of approval to a Philadelphia start-up to sell its flushable pregnancy test on the market. It means that after testing pregnancy test on a simple paper that paper can be flushed out in washroom basin so that nobody can trace it further helping a person to keep the secrecy of her pregnancy. The product has been developed by a start-up and is the first and only FDA-approved flushable, biodegradable pregnancy test.
Made with a special paper that works long enough to take the test and but then degrades in water, the pregnancy test has no glass and requires no batteries. However, it works just like the plastic pregnancy tests – the tests will react to the pregnancy hormone found in urine, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), displaying two lines to indicate pregnancy, one line if not. The company says the product was 99% accurate in…
