What's in the little liquid pods in the home tests?

[GreenBinLid]

Is it something household common.

Have a set of tests but without the liquid pods.

@FictionalCharacter I expect they just took a bunch of commercially available buffers from eg pcr kits or different off the shelf assays because those are already made industrially. But the little blister packs are cool. And yes even though the LFT is not super accurate it’s still an incredibly impressive and useful accomplishment

@FictionalCharacter

Having descended into the deepest depths of test kit nerdishness, I’ve now ascertained that the Innova kit uses PBS and the LumiraDx one uses Tris buffer + detergent.

Which is probably not interesting to many people at all

Thank you. I have been wondering this but too lazy to look it up.

I reported mine as missing, but they were tightly wrapped in the booklet which I had already put in the recycling.

I’ve managed to spill /lose 3 over the last few weeks and it’s irritating that I can’t just get some more pods as I don’t want to throw away the foil packaged tests.

Agree northern, also I find that even after pouring it there isn't enough for some reason, to get enough liquid into the test, so I have to open another.

@Nitgel

Agree northern, also I find that even after pouring it there isn't enough for some reason, to get enough liquid into the test, so I have to open another.

That sounds odd, I've always had loads in mine. Maybe they underfilled it?

Definitely don’t open another. There is ample liquid in the test kit, although it may well be only about 0.5ml. As long as there is enough to pop two drops onto the LF test at the end of the process it is fine, but if you add more buffer you will possibly invalidate the test - too much liquid means a lower concentration of antigen in the sample which might mean test will not detect…

This is a great thread. :-)

Does anyone know if any of it can be recycled?