Automated micro-volume sampling cards
Automated micro-volume sampling cards
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-Munksjö 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 main laboratory automated equipment available on the market, allowing reliable DBS card processing, from 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:
- Pharmacokinetic and Toxicokinetic
- Drug metabolism
- Clinical and preclinical studies
- Human identification
- Biomarkers screening
- Viral load testing
The performance of AutoCollect™ has shown strong advantages compared to equivalent solutions on the market:
- Paper purity – lowest background of the card in Mass Spectrometry analysis
- Precision and accuracy – blood spot size is reproducible from one AutoCollect™ card to another and is easily recognizable by the machine scan
- On card stability - no solubility of the inks with solvents commonly used in HPLC/MS and no deleterious effects of high quality converting on the performance of the fibers web structure
