Macherey-Nagel
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Macherey-Nagel test strips for hydrogen peroxide, in one presentation.
932002
A semi-quantitative test strip for hydrogen peroxide, read on a reflectometer. Dip it, wait the stated time, and compare the pad against the colour scale on the tube.
DiaQuant strips read on a reflectometer instead of by eye. The colour scale is replaced by an instrument reading, which removes the two weaknesses of visual comparison: the operator's judgement and the operator's lighting. Peroxide baths are validated processes in food and pharmaceutical plants, and a validated process needs a number that can be recorded and audited, not a colour someone remembers.
A strip gives a range, not a figure. That is enough for the great majority of decisions — dose or do not dose, discharge or hold, keep running or stop — and it gives the answer where the sample is, in about a minute, with no instrument to calibrate and nothing to carry back to a laboratory.
When a number has to be defensible — a regulatory report, a dispute, a limit you are close to — a photometer or a laboratory method is the right tool. The strip's job is to tell you whether you need one.
Keep the strips dry and capped; reflectometric strips drift more visibly with humidity than visual ones, because the instrument sees the drift.
Supplied in one presentation.