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Use only new test strips. Make sure the aluminium foil (the "silver
ends") is intact on both sides. Your blood glucose results may be
incorrect if you use a damaged drum. Incorrect results can cause
the wrong therapeutic decision to be taken and so produce ad-
verse health effects.
Handle the test strip drums with care! Only remove a test strip
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drum from its container when you intend to use it. The container
protects the aluminium foil on the drum from damage.
There is a label on the container the drum came in. The left
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portion may be peeled off. On it are two different concentration
tables for Accu-Chek Compact Control and Accu-Chek Compact
Autocontrol solutions. The stated concentrations are valid only
for the test strips contained in this particular drum. You need the
tables to check your meter. You may, for instance, wish to stick
the peel-off label in your notebook or diary. When conducting a
quality control test always check that the peel-off label with the
concentration table belongs to the test strips that are currently in
the meter (see Chapter 6 "Checking your meter").
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Initial steps before testing
Use only Accu-Chek Compact test strip drums. Other test strips
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cannot be used to perform tests.
If you insert a different test strip drum, the following message
will be displayed:
Only open the drum compartment when you intend to insert
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a new test strip drum or the meter requests you to clean the
measuring window (see Chapter 7.1 "Cleaning the meter"). If
you open and close the drum compartment while a drum is still
inside, the meter assumes that you have inserted a drum that is
already partly used (see below).
Initial steps before testing
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