Thank you for the information John Gentile !

Where would needles be tested as a method of quality control in manufacturing and
packaging needles to make sure that those needles would not end up with some infectious
organisms?...

The only way to make sure that manufactured and packaged needles would not be infected
would be to test them.

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"Don Saklad" wrote ...

No. Needles are gamma irradiated after packaging. the chances of any stary
bugs getting through that is somewhat remote, and even accepting that kind
of miracle, one or two individual bugs would not be a viable infection risk.

It's not a physical problem; it's an anxiety issue.

The quality control departments of companies that produce sterile
instruments and equipment. Sterility checks are performed to insure that all
the bugs are killed as the last step in manufacturing. It may not involve
testing the the needles themselves but adding a resistent bacteria in a vial
along with the needles.and then trying to grow that bacteria, usually a
spore forming bacteria of Clostridium. Spore formers are hard to kill so if
it kills them then it can kill all other bacteria.
If you want to play with it then you can send them to a commercial
microbiology lab and not a medical one as they don't really care about that.
Needles are used all the time in {*filter*} cultures and if they were to be
contaminated then we would hear about it pretty quickly as contamination
rates are recorded and followed closely from a qualilty performance in
keeping the contamination rate down.
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Thank you Robert !

Please let me know of any particular laboratory should you happen upon the information...

It is the direct enquriy as expressed even though it appeared other
replies have emphasized the broad clinical modalities.

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Manufacturing QM/PI has nothing to do with post-exposure clinical
specimen testing, which is what you asked about earlier.

Other replies' emphasis on clinical issues directly addressed your
stated question, "How to get needles tested after needle sticks."

If your real question is how lab equipment is inspected prior to use,
then you might want to restate the question under a new Subject line,
which doesn't ask about "Needle sticks".