What Is USP and Why Does It Matter for Lab Vials?
A vial catalog says “Type I borosilicate glass” on almost every page. USP is the United States Pharmacopeia general chapter titled Containers—Glass.
Can You Mix Vial Brands Within One Method?
Last quarter I helped a lab evaluate a second vial supplier after their primary vendor slipped a delivery by five weeks.
How to Set Up a Stockroom for Lab Consumables
The lab I inherited in my first management job had a stockroom rule I will never forget: if you cannot find it, order it.
How to Choose Lab Consumables for a University Teaching Lab
Teaching labs live in a world of their own: 60 students, 12 workstations, one budget line that never stretches far enough, and equipment that gets treated…
9 Lab Consumables Myths That Waste Money
A visiting professor once told me he only buys the most expensive vials because “cheap glass cost him a paper”. Maybe it did.
Clinical Diagnostics Lab Consumables: The Complete Guide
I once spent a full afternoon tracing a weird potassium result back to a blood collection tube. Not the analyzer, not the method, not the phlebotomist.