Sample Collection Kit · Made in the USA · Since 1983

Wipe samples. Sealed. Labeled. Ready to count.

Name: Wipe Test Kit
Brand: Laboratory Technologies, Inc.

A complete wipe-test workflow in one box — designed so contamination stays sealed in the tube, not on the bench. Compatible with the LTI Multi-Wiper, Wiper Gold, and Genesys counter families.

Why this kit exists

Most wipe-test consumables are designed for the wipe. We designed for the workflow.

The standard wipe-test consumable on the market is a printed card with a sticky-back fiber circle. The technologist writes the date and location on the card, folds it so the fiber is on the inside, smears the surface, folds it back, rolls the whole thing tight, and stuffs it into the well of the counter. Done correctly, it works.

Done quickly — or by a tired technologist at the end of a long shift — and the contaminated fiber surface touches the operator’s gloves during the fold, the bench while writing the next card, the inside of other cards stacked in the rack, and occasionally the technologist’s other hand.

That’s a workflow problem. The whole point of doing wipe surveys is to find and contain contamination. A consumable that exposes the contaminated surface during handling defeats the purpose. The LTI Wipe Test Kit was designed around a different physical approach: seal each sample in its own capped tube the moment it’s wiped, and never expose the contaminated surface again.

What’s in the box

Everything you need for ~200 surveys, in one ordered SKU.

One PO, one vendor, one delivery. No piecing together cards from one supplier, tubes from a second, labels from a third, and a marker from a desk drawer.

The LTI Wipe Test Kit components laid out: foldable cardboard tube rack with capped sample tubes, a pile of caps, a pile of test tubes, a fine-tipped marker, and a sealed pack of viscose wipe squares.

200 viscose wipe squares — approximately 2″ × 2″, sealed in a single pack
200 test tubes — 12 × 75 mm standard, sized to drop directly into the counter’s well or well liner
200 caps — friction-fit, seal each sample at the moment of wiping
1 fine-tipped marker — for writing location, date, and operator ID directly on each tube body
1 foldable cardboard tube rack — ships flat, folds into a 25-position rack; lasts the life of the kit; throwaway when consumed (no cross-batch carryover)

Compatible with the LTI Multi-Wiper, Wiper Gold, and Genesys counter families. Each sealed tube drops directly into the counter’s well liner — no transfer, no unrolling, no additional handling at the point of count.

$99 MSRP per complete kit.

How it works

Three steps. No origami.

Wipe the surface

Take a viscose square. Wipe the location your survey protocol calls for. The viscose holds residue without shedding fibers — and unlike a folded card, the wipe never has to touch anything else during the wiping motion itself.

Seal it in a tube

Place the used square in a tube. Cap it. Write the wipe location, date, and operator ID on the tube body with the included marker. That sample is now fully contained. Cross-contamination from this wipe is no longer possible.

Stage and count

Drop the labeled tube into the included cardboard rack — 25 positions per round. Move to the next survey location. When the round is done, carry the rack to the counter and process the samples in batch.

In use

Sealed at the point of wipe.

A blue-gloved hand holding a single sealed sample tube. The viscose square wipe is inside the tube; the cap is on.

One sample. One tube. One cap. Once the cap is on, the contamination cannot spread to anything else.

The viscose wipe square is small and soft enough to be rolled or stuffed into the tube, depending on how the technologist is handling it. Gloved-finger handling? Roll the square first and push the small roll into the tube. Using forceps? Stuff the square in flat — the forceps grip means no rolling is needed. The kit doesn’t dictate technique; both approaches seat the wipe properly for counting.

The tube is a true single-use disposable — the entire kit is consumed and thrown out at the end of its run, so there’s no cleaning between uses and no chance of carryover from one batch to the next.

Batch workflow

Twenty-five samples at a time, organized and labeled.

The included cardboard rack holds 25 sealed tubes per round. The technologist walks the survey route placing each sealed tube into the next position.

At the end of the round, the entire rack is carried to the counter. No tubes loose in pockets, no piles of folded cards, no contamination spreading from one sample to the next while you queue them up. The rack ships flat, folds into shape in seconds, and is throwaway when the kit is consumed — no cleaning required between batches, no possibility of carryover from a previous month’s survey.

For larger surveys, simply work through multiple rounds — the kit’s 200 wipes / tubes / caps cover ~8 full racks worth of sampling.

A blue-gloved hand placing a sealed sample tube into the LTI cardboard tube rack. Several sealed tubes are already loaded into the rack with viscose wipe samples visible inside each one.

Counter compatibility

Designed to drop straight into the well of any LTI counter.

The 12 × 75 mm tube standard means each sealed sample drops directly into the counter’s well or well liner. No transfer, no unrolling, no extra handling at the point of count.

The Wipe Test Kit was developed for, and is tested with, the following LTI counter families:

Multi-Wiper™ — 2-to-10-well configurations. Drop one sealed tube into each detector well and process the survey in batches matching the well count. The 25-position cardboard rack pairs naturally with a 5- or 10-well Multi-Wiper for fast batch staging.
Wiper Gold — single-well, low-throughput. Each sealed tube counted in sequence; the rack keeps the queue organized while a survey round is in progress.
Genesys™ family (Genii, Gamma 1) — benchtop and multi-well configurations. Same 12 × 75 mm tube interface.

The kit also works with legacy LTI counters (Genesys 5000, OTC 7000) that share the standard 12 × 75 mm well geometry. If you have an older instrument and aren’t sure whether the kit’s tubes are the right size for your wells, call us — we’ll confirm before you order.

For the way wipe surveys actually happen

Built by the company that makes the counter.

Laboratory Technologies, Inc. has been designing and manufacturing nuclear medicine instruments — and the consumables they use — in Elburn, Illinois since 1983. The Wipe Test Kit was developed for our own customer base after decades of watching wipe surveys go sideways in real labs. It’s not a third-party consumable bought wholesale and re-branded. It’s our product, designed for our counters, made in the United States.

Order a kit for your lab.

$99 MSRP per kit (200 wipes, 200 tubes, 200 caps, marker, foldable 25-position rack). In-stock kit orders typically ship from Elburn within 24 hours of cleared payment — often same day if your order lands before our Central Time cutoff. Questions? Call us — a real person will answer.

Request Order → Call 800.542.1123