AutoCollect™ DBS sampling cards for use with laboratory automated equipment

As Dried Blood Spot (DBS) sampling continues to gain popularity as a convenient, cost-effective tool for bioanalysis, more laboratories are automating DBS sample processing to increase speed and efficiency.

Ahlstrom’s AutoCollect™ cards are designed for microvolume sampling, transport, and storage of DBS at ambient temperature. Their sturdy cassette format fits with most main laboratory automated equipment, enabling rapid and reliable DBS card processing, from the detection of dried blood spots to the preparation of samples for Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) analysis.

Ideal for applications in pharmacokinetics and toxicokinetics, clinical and preclinical studies, human identification, forensics, biomarker screening, and viral load testing, AutoCollect™ cards offer distinct competitive advantages, including precision and accuracy −blood spot size is reproducible from one card to another −and the lowest background of the card in MS analysis due to our paper purity.

The cards are listed as an FDA Class 1 Medical Device.

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 are suitable for a range of applications

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

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