I bought a new pack­age of strips for my ReliOn Ultima meter today and was some­what puz­zled that the cal­i­bra­tor bar — the white stick you use to set the meter’s code for that batch of test strips — reads Lot 0000.  I looked at the foil wrap on the strips and it reads Lot 44455.  Uh-oh, I thought, there’s some kind of mix-up and the read­ings won’t be accurate.

A quick check to the ReliOn web­site (http://www.relion.com/information/faq-relion_ultima.htm#foil1) calmed my con­cerns, however:

What is the dif­fer­ence when cal­i­brat­ing my ReliOn Ultima meter with ReliOn Ultima Test Strips that includes the Lot 00000 cal­i­bra­tor bar?

Cal­i­bra­tion is per­formed in the usual way with pre­vi­ous LOT num­bers of ReliOn Ultima Blood Glu­cose Test Strips. The cal­i­bra­tion code on the cal­i­bra­tor and the meter is now “LOT 00000” whereas the lot num­ber on the test strip foil wrap­per, car­ton and Instruc­tions for Use is dif­fer­ent. It is no longer required for you to check that the lot num­ber “00000” on the meter dis­play win­dow and cal­i­bra­tor matches the lot num­ber of the Instruc­tions for Use and the foil packet. You’ll need to check that the lot num­ber on the test strip Instruc­tions for Use matches the test strip foil packet, and that the meter dis­play and test strip cal­i­bra­tor matches LOT 00000.

Okay. So we’re good to go! Though the Lot num­bers don’t match, the meter cal­i­bra­tion will work for the new test strips.

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