You mentioned that a part of your job was ‘labelling saliva tubes’. Why do you do this and how does it help you?

Question: You mentioned that a part of your job was 'labelling saliva tubes'. Why do you do this and how does it help you?
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  saliva
Asked by Axy to Theresia on 11 Nov 2014.
- Theresia Mina answered on 11 Nov 2014:
  
  Hi Axy,
  
  Labelling tubes are important especially because I am handling hundred of tubes and i can get very confused sometimes! We need to know what is inside, when it was collected (sometimes what time during the day) and where, and whose sample it is. What I put in the label will depend on my experimental set up..

Question: You mentioned that a part of your job was 'labelling saliva tubes'. Why do you do this and how does it help you?