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SD Codefree Strips - Batch ending 44

Result. That's very good of them as for the most part mine have just been above the acceptable tolerances. Nice to see that some businesses vlue their customers.
 
Well done, Bluetit!

I must say that this current pot of 44s is behaving very well! I have yet to get an odd or failed reading. Strange...
 
Could I please make a general request now?

I think we all violently agree we have seen "unexpected results" from batch 44, which home health have raised with the manufacturer and they intend to do in-house investigations themselves with strips returned by users.

I'm unsure what added value there is now in continuing to post variations on that theme- aside from potentially undermining confidence in an otherwise excellent product, from which we all have a huge amount to be thankful for.

Home health have confirmed, more than once that all stocks of Batch 44 have been exhausted so orders now being fulfilled are from a different batch.

We need to each decide what, if any, action we need to take on these readings (like retest or apply an average variance factor) and move on. It feels like this horse has already been flogged to its demise.

Thanks.
 
Today I have received an email from Home Health.

SD Biosensor have reported back with their findings which I have attached here. They tested the retained samples of LOT SO314144 against previous LOTS and also against other glucose meters.

Their findings show that there were no significant differences in accuracy nor consistency between LOT SO314144 and other tested LOTS and meters. They have concluded that the problems being experienced are down to possible damage during transit. The tests arrived here in late December so may also have been subjected to extreme weather.

To investigate further I shall be conducting a week long pre and post food comparison between our retained tests from SO314144, all returned tests from SO314144 and also against 4 other recent batches of SD strips that we have retained.

I will report back to you with my findings.


Kind regards
 
I guess it could have been a transit issue as the strips did seem to work better if I popped the meter and them in warm bed for a bit. Also it depends on what you think of as significant. If batch 44 was reading at the top end of the tolerance and your previous batch was at lower range then it would seem quite a leap. It was more the consistency that I had problems with. Still it is good to see that they have taken the issue seriously and are trying to come up with an answer as something was certainly wrong with several of my pots.
 
Am just about to move on from SO314126 to SO314161 - should I be concerned?
 
brettsza said:
Just realised from your signature are you doing NCD?
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Do you mean me? If NCD means Newcastle Diet, then yes - my variant of it; same calorie target but with more appetising food.
 
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