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By: Kevin McKeown

Since our introduction of Synthetic Blood solutions, we have been keenly interested in learning about our customers and their various use cases.  From stain resistance to artificial heart valve testing, we have heard about a lot of really cool applications.  And as this new product continues to expand, hopefully we’ll have more stories like this one to tell!

One of our Synthetic Blood customers is Sameer Patel from the Detmold Group in Australia.  Sameer is a Laboratory Technician and he’s using our Synthetic Blood for penetration testing on PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).  This technique uses specially-designed Blood Splatter equipment that puts on quite a show!  Our Synthetic Blood is loaded into the instrument and ejected at a high velocity onto the surgical mask, gown, or other PPE, for the purpose of emulating a real-life situation.  The piece of PPE is then judged on whether or not it meets the permeability requirements of the particular ASTM testing method that the customer is following.  In Sameer’s case, he is using our Synthetic Blood that conforms to ASTM F1862 and ASTM F1670M.

Sameer’s has been kind enough to share some photos of our Synthetic Blood In-Action:

A person stands next to a laboratory machine in a clean, well-lit workspace, with a clock and various tools in the background.A transparent enclosure with a circular opening, surrounded by blue materials and a stained surface, likely for a medical or laboratory purpose.A transparent enclosure with a circular opening, featuring a blue mask and some reddish residue inside.

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