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Article: Blood test modules in blister-packs test positive.
- Article from:
- Packaging Digest
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
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Behring Diagnostics improves the accuracy of its blister-packed blood test modules by converting to a forming film of PVC/PE/PVDC. The blisters are thermoformed/filled/sealed and cartoned on a custom-designed system.
Blood testing is an especially sensitive issue these days. Aside from a accuracy, an aspect much appreciated by doctors, nurses and anxious patients is fast results.
In 1990, Behring Diagnostics, or PB Diagnostics as it was then known as, introduced Opus[R], a self-contained, blister-packed test module for blood that was an alternative to wet chemistry methods. The Opus test module contains all of the required reagents and is used in ...