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Versatile Tubes Store Light-Sensitive Samples

By LabMedica International staff writers
Posted on 22 Feb 2011
Amber polypropylene storage tubes, used in conjunction with secure screw caps, ensures the integrity of light sensitive biological samples even over long-term storage periods.

The new amber storage tube uniquely safeguards light sensitive samples while still usefully allowing visual checking of enclosed sample volume and replaces the original opaque black tube. More...


The storage tubes manufactured by Micronic Europe (Lelystad, The Netherlands) are compatible with almost all automated sample-handling systems. Manufactured to strict tolerances, the precision and consistency of Micronic amber storage tubes maximizes operational uptime when used with automated cherry picking and other sample handling systems. The tubes are supplied in a 96-position sample tube-storage rack that meets the globally recognized Society of Biomolecular Screening (SBS; St. Charles, IL, USA) standard footprint.

The tubes are produced in a class 7 automated manufacturing facility, from high-quality, polypropylene and have US Food and Drug Administration-approval (FDA, Silver Spring, MD, USA). Micronic amber storage tubes resist most organic solvents and are supplied "sample safe,” free from additives or leachates. Micronic amber storage tubes are also fully validated free of ribonuclease, deoxyribonuclease, (RNase / DNase) and pyrogens, denoting they can be used to store the most sensitive biological samples.

A choice of amber tubes is available to suit all light sensitive sample storage needs. The volume range of tubes is 0.5 mL, 0.75 mL, 1.4 mL and 7.5 mL. The amber tubes come in noncoded, alphanumeric coded and, laser encrypted two dimensional coded formats. If required Micronic amber storage tubes can be supplied sterile, gamma radiated, precapped with screw caps for convenience, or fitted with Snap Tube locks to secure the tubes into the wells in the rack to prevent sample loss from overturned racks.

Related Links:
Micronic Europe
Society of Biomolecular Screening
FDA


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