Specimen Containers, Tubes and Pipettes

What is in this range

Specimen collection supplies are the pieces that carry a sample from the person to the bench: the container it is collected in, the tube it is analyzed from, the pipet that moves it, and the bag it travels in. Everything on this page is made by Globe Scientific and sold by the case, in the quantities a working collection site or laboratory gets through rather than retail packs.

For drug-testing programs, the starting point is the 90 mL sterile container with an attached temperature strip and tab-seal patient ID label. For urinalysis, the 120 mL cup with an integrated transfer device fills a 13 × 100 mm vacuum tube without the cup being opened. The same 13 × 100 mm format is shared by our borosilicate glass culture tubes, so both sit in the racks a lab already owns.

Whatever is collected still has to reach the lab. Our biohazard specimen bags are 6 × 9 inches, carry an absorbent pad and an attached document pouch, and close with a tamper-evident glue seal — so the sample, the spill and the paperwork all travel together and arrive readable.

What arrives sterile, and what does not

Two items in this range arrive sterile: the 90 mL drug-test container and the 120 mL specimen cup. That matters where a result has to stand up to a second look later — a chain-of-custody specimen, a culture, anything that may be challenged. The transfer pipettes are non-sterile, and the culture tubes, the urine collection vacuum tubes and the transport bags carry no sterility claim on Globe Scientific’s own product pages, so we do not make one for them here.

Choosing between the 90 mL container and the 120 mL cup

Both are sterile and both collect urine, but they suit different moments. The 90 mL drug-test container has its temperature strip and tab-seal label built in. The chain-of-custody step happens at the point of collection, so it is the right choice when a result has to stand up later. The 120 mL cup is larger and has the integrated transfer device. The sample moves straight into a 13 × 100 mm vacuum tube without the cup being opened. It is the better fit for routine urinalysis, where speed at the bench matters more than an attached label.

How a sample moves from collection to lab

A typical drug-testing submission starts with the 90 mL container. The donor's sample goes in. The attached temperature strip confirms it was collected within range. The tab-seal patient ID label is applied and initialed on the spot. The sealed container then goes into one of our biohazard specimen bags. The absorbent pad protects against a leak in transit, and the document pouch carries the chain-of-custody paperwork apart from the sample. The bag's tamper-evident glue seal closes the loop: if it arrives open, that shows at once. Urinalysis follows the same pattern. The 120 mL cup fills a vacuum tube without being opened, and the tube travels in the same style of bag.

The transfer pipettes

The 7.0 mL large-bulb transfer pipette is 155 mm long and graduated to 3 mL in LDPE, with molded-in graduations that will not fade or wash off in handling. It is non-sterile and ships 500 to a box, 10 boxes to a case: 5,000 pipettes.

Case quantities

Case packs here run from 300 units to 5,000 depending on the item, and every product page states its own. Globe Scientific does not publish case weights or case dimensions for this line, so we do not quote them here.

Building a complete collection kit

None of these items are bundled — each ships as its own case, so a collection site orders exactly what it uses up rather than a fixed kit. A drug-testing collection point typically pairs the 90 mL container with specimen bags, so each filled container travels to the lab sealed, documented and in its own bag. A urinalysis lab collecting into the 120 mL cup will usually also stock urine collection vacuum tubes and culture tubes, since all three share the same 13 × 100 mm rack format already described above.

Specimen containers for drug-testing programs

Drug-testing sites usually order specimen containers and screens together. A site running urine drug test cups collects straight into the cup. A site sending samples to a lab collects into the 90 mL container and ships it in a specimen bag. Many programs do both, so the two lines are stocked side by side: see drug test cups for the screens and the 90 mL container for lab-bound collections.

Common questions

Can I order less than a full case? No — everything on this page ships by the case only, in the quantities listed above. That keeps the per-unit price down for a site that reorders this range regularly rather than buying occasional retail packs.

Are the tubes and cups sterile? Only where stated: the 90 mL drug-test container and the 120 mL cup ship sterile. The transfer pipettes are non-sterile, and the culture tubes, vacuum tubes and specimen bags carry no sterility claim.

Who orders specimen collection supplies

pharmacies and compounding pharmacies · hospital and health-system pharmacy · long-term care and skilled nursing · home health and hospice · urgent care and physician offices · correctional health