ColoScreen Lab Pack Fecal Occult Blood Tests

The ColoScreen Lab Pack from Helena Laboratories is a guaiac-based fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) built for laboratories and testing volume rather than the exam room. Each kit is a complete, self-contained system for colorectal cancer screening — no piecing together reagents and consumables from separate orders.

The Helena Laboratories ColoScreen Lab Pack (item 5072) contains 100 single ColoScreen slides with on-slide ColoCheck monitors, two 15 mL bottles of ColoScreen developer, and 100 specimen applicators — enough for 100 visual-read tests on stool samples. The built-in ColoCheck positive and negative performance monitors are what make this a lab-appropriate choice: they let technicians confirm the developer and test are functioning correctly with every slide read, supporting quality-control documentation and CLIA-waived workflow expectations.

A common question from buyers is how the Lab Pack differs from Helena's office-oriented packs. The answer is packaging and scale. If you are equipping a physician's office or distributing patient-collected slides, the ColoScreen III Office Pack is configured for that setting, and the ColoCare Office Pack offers an alternative take-home screening format. The Lab Pack, by contrast, is optimized for a testing bench processing samples in batches.

Because guaiac tests react to peroxidase activity, patient dietary and medication preparation still matters for accurate results — but the on-slide monitors remove much of the guesswork from the reading step itself. Stored properly, the slides and developer offer a practical shelf life for steady-volume programs.

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