Opening International Specimen Lanes: A Case Study

A client was expanding internationally faster than its shipping documentation could keep up. Here is the framework that sorted legal lanes from unknown ones, built while volume was already moving.

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CMYK or Pantone: A Plain Guide to Color and Ink Count in Packaging

What process and spot color actually do, what one, two, three, and four color printing mean on a quote, and how substrate and coating change the printed result.

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Choosing Box Material for a Collection Kit: E-Flute, SBS, and Chipboard

What E flute, SBS, and chipboard actually do, the four packaging tiers from stock box to rigid setup box, and how to decide without wasting tooling money.

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Capillary Collection or Venipuncture: How to Choose for an At-Home Program

How to choose between venipuncture and self collection blood devices, by mechanism, sample volume, matrix validation, hemolysis sensitivity, and completion rate.

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How to Choose a Preservation Medium for an At-Home Collection Kit

A decision framework for choosing preservation media: what the assay needs, what the sample must survive in transit, fill volume, extraction compatibility, and consumer handling.

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From Prototype to Shelf: Building a Kit Around a Collection Device That Does Not Fit a Tube

What it takes to turn a novel collection format into a shippable kit: transfer path design, media selection, two way sample testing, document control, and two pilots.

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What to Ask a Kit Fulfillment Partner Before You Build the Integration

The questions technical teams actually ask before integrating with a kit fulfillment provider, and what a good answer sounds like.

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Audit Your Specimen Kit Supplier: A Side-by-Side Criteria Sheet

Square footage and years in business are the easiest things to compare between kit suppliers and the least predictive of performance. The criteria sheet we hand to companies evaluating us, with our column filled in and yours blank, plus what each gap costs when it fails.

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What FDA’s QMSR Means for At-Home Test Kit Companies

QMSR took effect February 2, 2026 and incorporates ISO 13485:2016 by reference into 21 CFR Part 820. What changed, what did not, what it means when you outsource kit assembly, and the seven questions to put to your manufacturer at the next review.

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How to Choose an At-Home Test Kit Fulfillment Partner

Judge an at-home test kit fulfillment partner on whether it can prove, from records, what was in every kit, where it went, and what happened when it came back. Scope tiers, a scorecard, SLA language that can be measured, six return workflows, and the documents to demand before you sign.

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