We tried this method and it too was messy. In the end, we decided to supply horse blood in a 12x75 mm plastic tube, and a small pasteur pipette. Steve Sharp > -----Original Message----- > From: Colston Andrew (ULHT) [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 04 July 2002 11:07 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Packaging of glucose meter QA samples > > We send defibrinated horse blood QA samples to our glucose meter users. > At the moment, we use Alpha lab. pastettes sealed with Baxter sealing > clips, > which is rather messy and time consuming. > Does anybody know of a more efficient way of doing this ? > > Andrew colston