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Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49% by spenczar5 on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:13PM (#17526741)
How do you know the quality is acceptable on something like test strips? I don't know anything about the specific here, but I would have thought that you especially would care about brand for single-use test supplies, because you just have to trust the manufacturer regarding their false positive/negative rates.

(this sounds more combative than I mean because internet text is hard - i'm genuinely curious)

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Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49% by paulcole on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:25PM (#17526831)
There is a solution of known "sweetness" you can put on test strips. If the result comes up in a set range, they're acceptable. Basically my assumption is that if a random strip or 2 from a container is good, they're all good. Also, knowing blood sugar EXACTLY isn't really something I'm interested in. I want to know trends and where I'm roughly at.
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