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Using Flavored Tongue Depressors in Pediatrics and Beyond

How to Measure a Wound: A Comprehensive Guide

What is an ATP Test?

The Complete Guide to Listeria Swab Testing

Ultimate Guide to Attending ECCMID

Complete Guide to Urethral Penile Swabs: A Critical Tool for Men’s Health

Cervical Health Awareness Month: Focusing on Women’s Well-being

How to Swab for STDs: Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Rectal, and More

What is the Best Way to Prevent Poor Food Safety?

Ensuring Purity in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing with Foam & Polyester Swabs

Your Guide to Sterile Swabs for Medical Use

Poultry Diseases Symptoms and Treatments: Swabbing Live Birds

Before You Say AHH... Learn More About Swabbing for Strep Throat

How to Take Self-Swab Samples for Detection of Group B Streptococcus (GBS)

Everything You Need To Know About How To Swab for Strep Throat

Guide to Swabs & Applicators for Companion Animal Care

Are You Prepared for the Coming Flu Season?

Is It a Cold or the Flu? Get the Symptoms Straight

Prepare for the Upcoming Annual AACC Meeting

The Top 6 Benefits of Buying American-Made Swabs

How to Collect a Throat Swab Specimen [VIDEO]

Your Guide to Attending ASM Microbe

How to Choose the Right Type of Environmental Sampling Product

The Complete Guide to Custom Medical Products

How to Swab for Touch DNA Evidence

How to Collect a Buccal Swab Sample for Forensic Analysis

Foam Cleaning Swabs: A Comparison of Foam Tip Swabs

Genetic Swab Test: What You Need to Know

The Ideal Swab for STD Testing

The Ideal Swab for RSV Swab Testing

Flu Test vs Covid Test | Why You Should Choose a Dual Test

What are the Advantages of 3” Swabs for Diagnostics?

How to Choose the Right Type of Flu Swab for Influenza Diagnosis

The Top Three Sterile Swab Types for DNA Collection

How Environmental Sampling Kits Prevent Biofilm Buildup in Food Production

Effective DNA Swab Collection at Crime Scenes

The Guide to Buying Cleanroom Swabs

How to Prepare and Collect Monkeypox Specimens

What Are ESD Safe Swabs?

Why All the Fuss About Patents?

Puritan Swabs Are Saving the World—One Bat at a Time

Specimen Collection Kit: Product Overview

The Types of Tongue Depressors: Which to Choose

Nasopharyngeal Sample Collection Kit: What to Look For

Puritan-BU: A New England Case Study in COVID-19 Success

Fecal Swabs: What to Look for in a Fecal Swab Test Kit

Viral Transport Media: An Overview with Product Examples

How to Swab for the Flu | Comprehensive Flu Swab Test Guide

What to Expect: COVID Nasal Swab Test

Nasopharyngeal Swab vs Nasal Swab: Comparing Methods

Puritan and MDR | Europe’s Changes in the Medical Device World

Single-Use COVID-19 Testing Swabs Do NOT Present a Health Threat

Enterovirus Test Kit: How to Test for Enterovirus D68

Swab Shafts: A Comparison of Swab Handle Materials

Sterile Flocked Collection Devices: How to Use Flocked Swabs

How to Test for Pathogens in Food [Guide With Images]

Medical-Grade Swabs vs Drugstore Cotton Swabs for Viral Testing

How to Collect a Throat Swab Specimen

Forensic Samples: Swabs for Trace Evidence vs Blood Evidence

How to Swab for DNA Evidence

Why Flocked Swabs Provide Superior Specimen Collection

Identifying and Preventing DNA Evidence Contamination

How to do a MRSA Nasal Swab

How Medical Swabs Are Sterilized

Puritan is Expanding into Tennessee

Not Just a Quality Product. A Quality Company.

7 Ways to Manage COVID-19 Burnout in the Workplace

COVID-19 Testing 101: The Basics at a Glance

More Reasons Why Puritan Is a Great Place to Work

Stepping Up: COVID-19 Heroes on the Manufacturing Front Line

90 Million Swabs a Month: The Story of Puritan’s New Plant in Pittsfield, ME

Puritan Receives 2020 Freedom in Opportunity Award and Training Grant

The Future of COVID-19 Testing – What We’re Learning

8 Ways to Keep Your Cleanroom Free of Contaminants

The Many Industrial Advantages of Foam Tip Swabs

5 Food Safety Trends Brought on by COVID-19

What the Deceased Can Share with the Living about COVID-19

COVID-19 Testing: Lessons Learned from College Reopening

Why Puritan Employees Are Committed to Save the World One Swab at a Time

Learn Proper Food Safety Testing Methods

By Land and By Sea, Puritan Is Protecting Lives, One Swab at a Time

7 Ways to Limit the Spread of COVID-19 in Your Childcare Setting

5 Reasons Men Are Being Hit Harder by COVID-19

Your Guide: Purchasing the Right Critical Environment Swabs

6 Tips for Reopening a Restaurant in a COVID-19 World

Puritan at the Epicenter of COVID-19 Testing

Puritan Rushes COVID-19 Testing Supplies to the Nation’s Biggest Hot Spot

COVID-19 Testing: How to Collect a Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimen

Puritan Helps Grand Princess Passengers Get COVID-19 Testing

Fighting Back Against Norovirus

Get Out in Front of Coronavirus Testing

A Puritan Medical Products Retrospective: 2000-2018

A Puritan Medical Products Retrospective: 1985 – 2000

New Checklist a Great Addition to Your Swabbing Strategy

Why Puritan is Proud to Call Guilford Our Home

6 Top Sources for Processing Safer Produce

A Puritan Medical Products Retrospective: 1950-1985

Puritan Helps with Auburn University’s ‘Swab a Hog’ Largemouth Bass Study

Pharmacogenomics: What We Know About Genetic Testing for Mental Illness

A History of Specimen Collection: Swabs Then and Now

A Puritan Medical Products Retrospective: 1919-1950

Medical Swabs: How to Choose the Right Tools

5 Factors in Choosing the Right Transport Media

The Fire of 1958: Bouncing Back from Catastrophe

More User-Friendly Handle Design [VIDEO]

Swabs – Past to the Present

Protect Your DNA Specimen from Contamination with These Tools

The History and Evolution of the Swab

Arrowhead Forensics & Puritan: A True Success Story

RIDT vs RT-PCR vs Viral Culture for Flu Testing

Food Handlers Swabs – How To Choose the Right Swab for Food Safety

Ancestry DNA kits: Collection by Swab or Spit, and Just What They Reveal

Food Safety Testing – Which Swabs and Transport Medium Should You Use?

Comparing Sputum Solutions for the Recovery of Respiratory Pathogens

Foam-Tipped Swab Central to Norovirus Detection

Puritan Swab Helps Provide Migraine Headache Relief

Puritan's Fecal Opti-Swab® Collection & Transport System Delivers

How to Protect Your Controlled Environment Using ESD Swabs

Why Environmental Monitoring Is Important in Food Processing

Q&A: How Are Puritan Products Used for Food Safety?

Minimize DNA Specimen Degradation With the Right Transport System

Evaluation of RNA Preservation Buffers for the Storage of High Quality RNA in Clinical and Field Samples

Quantitative Detection of Viral and Bacterial Pathogens with Puritan’s Opti-Swab® Utilizing Q-PCR

Puritan Wins 2017 People’s United Bank Innovation and Technology Award

A Guide to Puritan's Specimen Collection Systems for Diagnostics

HydraFlock: The Superior Flocked Swab

Distributors Share Why Puritan Is Trusted in Controlled Environments

Controlled Environments Q&A: How Puritan Helps

New: Puritan's Fecal Opti-Swab® Collection and Transport System

Puritan Develops Custom Norovirus Detection Solution

Perfect Puritan Products for Hobbyists

Interested in Clinical Microbiology Automation? Know Which Enrichment and Transport Media to Use

The DNA of Puritan as a Company

Life in Microbiology Just Got Richer With Puritan's Four New Transport Media

Can the "CSI Effect" Impact Your Department or Lab?

Inoculation Loop vs Wooden Applicator Sticks for MALDI-TOF MS Analysis

How Improper DNA Evidence Collection Can Compromise Your Case

Why EnviroMax® and EnviroMax Plus® are Top Surface Sampling Swabs

Protein Test Swabs: How to Verify Allergen Control

Get Your Clients Event Ready with High-Quality Cosmetic Swabs

Flocked Swab FAQ: Everything to Know About Flocked Swabs

Why Should Pets get a DNA Test?

Filtered Air-Breathable DNA Transport Systems vs Swab Boxes

Six Truths About Crime Scene DNA You Won't See on TV

Flu Season Q&A: Everything You Need to Know About Puritan Swabs

Your Beautiful, Healthy Thanksgiving Turkey... Thanks to Swabs

How Product Customization Really Works: A Case Study For Environmental Sampling Kits

UniTranz-RT Validated for Viral Sample Storage at Room Temperature

Swabs Can Be Used as School Science Supplies! Learn How

Puritan Granted Chinese Patent for HydraFlock® Flocked Swabs

Learn How Our Swabs Play a Role in Genetics Testing

Puritan Helps Develop Innovative Product for Cryotherapy Treatment

Puritan Flavored Tongue Depressors For Pediatrics and More

Puritan® DM Stick Wound Measurement Device Is Now Even Better!

Stay Safe and Informed in 2015’s Measles Outbreak

Presenting Forensic Swabbing Techniques at Westwood College

Best Forensic Product of 2014: Puritan’s Cap-Shure®

Why Flocked Swabs Should Not be Coated

Puritan Flocked Swabs: HydraFlock® vs. PurFlock Ultra® - What's the Difference?

Not All Liquid Transport Systems for Specimen Processors are Created Equal!

How to Swab for Bacterial Contamination in Your Brewery

Sterile Swabs & Medical Sampling Kits for POC Testing

Why Choose Sterile & DNA-Free Forensic Swabs

Puritan Flocked Swabs Not in Violation of Copan European Patent

Whooping Cough Bacteria Viable for 48 Hours in Puritan Liquid Amies

Our Viral Transport Medium Preserves Respiratory Viruses for Extended Storage

Puritan Liquid Amies Compatible with Copan's WASP®

Join Puritan’s Flocked Swab Rev-Elution

Puritan Flocked Swab Absorption Capacity Validated by New Study

Puritan’s Foam Tipped Swabs for Cleaning Infusion Pumps

Our Environmental Sampling Swabs & The Food Safety Modernization Act

Using Puritan Foam Tipped Swabs to Care for Woodwind Instruments

Swab for Strep Throat & Other Winter Illnesses With Puritan Liquid Amies

How to Collect an Environmental Sample: Floor Drain [VIDEO]

Case Study: RNA Testing and Analysis of DNA-Free Nylon Flock Swabs

How to Collect an Environmental Sample From Ceramic Tile [VIDEO]

Independent Study Confirms Superior Performance of HydraFlock® Swabs

How to Collect an Environmental Sample From Stainless Steel [VIDEO]

Forensic Swab Adhesive Change: A Puritan Customer Case Study

Choosing the Right Swab for Critical Environments in Manufacturing and Industry

Puritan Medical Products is Getting Even Greener

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