How Safe Are Your Samples? Leachable Compounds

Paper 1 of the How Safe Are Your Samples series

About the White Paper

The Impact of Leachables & Extractables on Your Assays

Evidence shows that leachables and extractables can diffuse into solutions that come into contact with the surface of the plastic. These compounds can have a significant impact on scientific experiments and pose a likely source of error in many assay systems.

In this white paper, an independent third-party testing laboratory evaluated externally threaded and internally threaded tubes for the presence of extractables and leachables using ethanol and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis.

The external thread tubes were proven to be the only tubes that consistently produced no detectable leachables and, therefore, offer a superior solution for long-term storage of biological and chemical samples.

Review the analytical findings of this storage tube leachable compounds evaluation!