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harvester
A professional who removes virus-bearing fluid from fertile chicken eggs for use in manufacturing vaccines, such as influenza vaccine. Respnsibilities include:
- Saws end off egg, using electric saw, and removes fetal membrane, using tweezers to break sac containing viral fluid.
- Siphons fluid into sterilized and labeled bottles for further processing.
- Sterilizes tweezers by dipping them into antiseptic solution after each egg has been harvested.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Professional careers
- Category: Occupational titles
- Company: U.S. DOL
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- Jason F
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(United States of America)