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Inthe1960sitwasEYETONEfromARKRAYthatenabledbloodglucoseteststripsdevelopedinUSAtobemeasuredinsmalldevicesandthiswasaworldfirst.

Simple Blood Glucose Meter EYETONE(1970)

It is no exaggeration to say that the history of ARKRAY mirrors the changes in Blood Glucose Monitoring. In the 1960s it was EYETONE from ARKRAY that enabled blood glucose test strips developed in USA to be measured in small devices and this was a world first. The term small may seem a little misleading because these small meters were not like the small meters of today, fitting into a breast pocket. They were about the size of two video cassettes stacked in top of each other. On top of this the display was not digital like we see today, but an analogue meter using a needle gauge. Reagent reaction time was two minutes and after that, the user had to wash the reagent and carefully wipe away the water. By the...