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Are your vial labeling methods sabotaging your lab’s productivity?

Laboratory technicians continue to face many challenges when it comes to labelling, marking, and tracking vials, especially in fast-paced research, clinical, or industrial settings. This article examines the key issues that impact accuracy, workflow efficiency, and data integrity - the hidden bottleneck in many laboratories.

A large number of laboratories still use handwritten, faded, or half-peeling labels on their vials.

Even with all the technological progress, vial labelling remains one of the most overlooked and frustrating challenges in today’s laboratories. Here are a few common issues still seen far too often.

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The label struggle

Manually writing or printing small labels for hundreds of vials is tedious, slow, and prone to mistakes. Labels can fall off, smear, or fade after exposure to freezing or autoclaving. The limited label space often forces people to invent short codes that others struggle to understand later.

The tracking nightmare

Barcodes that are too tiny or curved to scan correctly. Vials that vanish between preparation and analysis – or mysteriously reappear weeks later. Many labs still rely on spreadsheets as their “tracking system.” There is rarely a simple way to identify where…