Quality Assurance Procedures for Precision’s Test Strips
Precision Laboratories’ test strips are manufactured under strict quality assurance procedures to ensure our customers receive the best possible product. Since we have already shared the quality assurance procedures for our dipslides, we thought we [...]
Meet Our Team: Kami Roti
Meet Kami Roti, a member of the front office staff, involved in computer systems management, purchasing, sales and marketing. Kami helps keep the computer systems running, and works to fix any glitches or down-time we [...]
EPA Science Experiment: Observing Buffer in Lakes, Ponds, and Streams
The EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) is a great educational resource that not everyone is aware of, so we like to share some of their experiments and informative web pages whenever possible. They have some [...]
Genetics and Beer
Two things that actually have some common ground: genetics and beer. Bet you didn’t see that coming. We found a couple of articles online from craft beer bloggers who tried experiments using our taste test [...]
PTC Taste Test History and Experiment
Some of the best scientific experiments come to us by accident, and PTC is no exception. In 1930, Arthur Fox had a lab accident while purifying phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) that he had just synthesized. A plume [...]
The Chemistry of Urine
Our bodily fluids are an interesting thing, and there’s a lot of chemistry behind them. We often get people trying to test their urine, sweat, tears, etc with our pH test strips, which won’t always [...]
Detecting Protein and Vitamin C in Foods
Here’s another great science experiment question from a student who is trying to test for Protein and Vitamin C in foods using our test strips. Follow our example below to see how best to perform [...]
Testing Vitamin C in Applesauce
Like many of our educational test strips, the Vitamin C test strip was developed for a specific purpose using water samples. However, over time, students, teacher, and organizations alike have found other uses for the [...]
Testing Glucose Levels in Rotting Bananas
We love to hear from young customers working on classroom science experiments and science fair projects. Some of the project inquiries we receive are very interesting and unique. Below is an example of a science [...]
PROP Versus PTC Taste Test Paper
We received a great and very specific question about Prop versus PTC taste test paper from Stuart, and in researching his question, we found a great resource we wanted to share. “I recently purchased your [...]
Calculating Phosphorous using the Phosphate Test Strips
“I have purchased your phosphate test strips. I'm a bit confused with the scale of the results. We are testing creek water and expected phosphate from a clean creek is below 0.025 for Australian Standards. [...]
Use of Hydrochloric Acid with Fluoride Test Strips
We received another great technical question with regards to the use of Hydrochloric Acid to adjust pH before using our Fluoride test strips. “I need to test fluoride content in storm sewer outfalls. What is [...]