-Made of high purity fiber-based material in accordance to the highest manufacturing standards
-No wet-strength additives or chemicals preventing interferences with downstream analysis
-Available in cassette format with high stiffness and accurate sizing
-Customizable according to our customers’ needs: design, barcode, dimensions, branding, etc.
High quality specimen collection cards designed for laboratory automated equipment.
Ahlstrom AutoCollect™ cards are designed for micro-volume sampling, transport, and storage of dried blood spot (DBS) at ambient temperature. The cassette format of the card with high stiffness provides a suitable fit with the main laboratory automated equipment available on the market, allowing reliable DBS card processing, from the detection of dried blood spot to the preparation of samples ready for LC/MS analysis.
The introduction of automation into the various steps of DBS sample processing has shown clear advantages and gains in productivity, including:
Traceability of operations
Volume control
Accuracy of timing
Analysis of results instead of results acquisition
AutoCollect™ cards can successfully be employed in the following:
Pharmacokinetic and Toxicokinetic
Drug metabolism
Clinical and preclinical studies
Human identification
Biomarkers screening
Viral load testing