stopper and puncture the worker 39 s hand these possibilities are entirely apart from other imperfections of the worker as relatively poor eyesight nervousness and the like additionally as earlier noted there exists the threat of injury in retracting the needle from the vial stopper 26 from a recoil like motion immediately after the needle 10 is pulled out of stopper 26 and the previously existing frictional resistance of the rubber to needle withdrawal suddenly ceases as the blood contaminated needle then starts to 34 fly 34 60 rearwardly on leaving the stopper there is a frequent immediate reflex by the worker to stop the rearward motion and abruptly move the needle again toward the fingers 32 holding the specimen tube with risk of scratching these fingers with the needle the se difficulties are obviated by the apparatus and system of fig3 9 thus therein the blood contaminated needle is shielded simultaneously with its withdrawal from the donor whereby no inadvertent puncture can occur and a separate shielded needle in a blood sample tube holder is used for safe drawing of the blood sample one form of the invention is seen in fig3 wherein needle cannula 40 somewhat similarly to needle 10 in fig1 includes the usual needle point 42 and further includes a special gripping portion or base member 44 bonded therearound near the needle proximal end 46 which latter is secured in usual manner to the flexible blood collection tubing 48 having its internal flow passage 50 tubing 48 terminates into one branch end 51 of a y connector 52 of well known form while a length of tubing 54 extends from the other end 56 of the y fitting 52 to communicate with blood bag 58 well known flow control adjustable clamps 70 70 are provided along.