🧩 What's in the box

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Box Contents

We produce Delvotest® T ampoules in three different formats—10, 25 and 100 ampoules. Every package comes with 5 types of items, at varying quantities.

Ampoules

Securely organised in white grids where their batch number, expiry date and other details are printed, here's how each is organised:

Along every grid's  X column/grid, you'll find information about your ampoule's batch code, expiry date, and more. Every grid follows a 'layout' like this:

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Pipettes

To help correctly dose and insert samples, every box of Delvotest® T ampoules comes with 0.1ml squeeze/bulb Pasteur pipettes. They come in sachets of 25 units each. Boxes of 10 and 25 ampoules come with 1 sachet of 25 pipettes, and boxes of 100 ampoules come with 4 sachets of 25 pipettes each (i.e., 100 pipettes total). Here's how they look like:

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Delvotest® Go Stickers

Designed for Delvotest® Go🔗 users, every box of Delvotest® T ampoules also comes with sticker-sheets to help securely seal ampoules during testing to avoid evaporating moisture from damaging the device. They come in sheets of 30 units each. Boxes of 10 and 25 ampoules come with 1 sheet of 30 stickers, and boxes of 100 ampoules come with 4 sheets of 30 stickers each (i.e., 120 stickers total). Here's how they look like:

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Reference Colourcard

For visual reading🔗 users, every box of Delvotest® T ampoules comes with a reference colourcard. Here's what they look like:

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Instructions for Use

Finally, every box of Delvotest® T ampoules also comes with a multi-language (English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish) leaflet🔗 with detailed information about how to use the ampoules🔗, where typically, for example, we highlight the advantage of using Control Time instead of Fixed Time🔗.

Shelf-Life and Storage

Like all microbiological tests, Delvotest® T ampoules rely on the incredible, heat-loving bacteria🔗 that 'sleep' inside the purple agar until 'awaken' during incubation at c. 64°C. This is why they typically have a 12-month shelf-life from their date of production at our Test Centre factory in Delft, the Netherlands; and, this is why proper storage of your Delvotest® T ampoules is so important. To safely store them away, we recommend keeping ampoules upright, in a stable, dark, dry (// humidity indication //?) and cold (4~8°C) place.

Next Steps

Are you new to Delvotest® or simply looking for tips on how to get the most out of our products? Then you might want to read next about best practices—starting from how to properly collect milk for testing, whether from an individual animal or a bulk tank. 

⏭️ Next article: Best Practices // Collecting milk🔗

💬 Got any questions? Need help? Contact us at support@delvotest.com