AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) A Maine company is acknowledging that it discarded specialized swabs for coronavirus testing that were produced while President Donald Trump visited its plant.

But it says disposing of the limited run didn’t hamper production.

Puritan Medical Products said there was only a 15-minute production run Friday so the president could see the company in action. The company said the plan all along was to destroy the swabs that were produced.

The company said Friday’s production was shifted to the weekend so weekly output was unaffected.

Media reports about the destruction of the swabs raised some concerns at a time when the nation is struggling to ramp up testing.