LabNotes - Volume 16, No. 3, 2006

Product News

BD has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its BD Vacutainer® Plus Plastic Serum, and SST Tubes for routine blood donor screening and diagnostic testing of serum for infectious disease.* Similarly, BD Vacutainer® Plus Plastic Serum and K2EDTA Tubes have been cleared for routine immunohematology testing and blood donor screening.**

* The performance characteristics of these tubes have not been established for infectious disease testing in general; therefore, users must validate the use of these tubes for their specific assay-instrument/ reagent system combinations and specimen storage conditions.

** The performance characteristics of these tubes have not been established for immunohematology testing in general; therefore, users must validate the use of these tubes for their specific assay-instrument/ reagent system combinations and specimen storage conditions.