View Full Version : Becton, Dickinson to Exit Glucose Monitoring Market
jimmys devoted
10-05-2006, 07:50 AM
Becton, Dickinson and Co. said on Thursday it will no longer continue with their worldwide blood glucose monitoring products.
With all of the better products on the market they just can see continuing.
I have the latituded and that was discontinued a few weeks after introduction.
ladygirl99
10-11-2006, 04:07 PM
So why they discontinue was it because they weren't selling or they think the products weren't effective?
jimmys devoted
10-12-2006, 07:53 AM
they decided actually that they had no real innovations to the testing supply markets. ther were enough testing products on the market and that they couldnt add to it or improve on it. They will continue to make their strips.
parise
10-14-2006, 09:35 AM
they just werent innovative enough thats all. You can always improve something.
jimmys devoted
10-16-2006, 05:56 PM
You can read about it at the BD site. they explain wht they decided to back out. I agree that they are the lader in syringe developments. They are working on even smaller needles and smaller shorter barrels for portability.
My latitude was agreat design, I mean everything in one unit, meter, insulin holder, pen/syringe holder, strips, booklet.. but it seemed to be cumbersome and strps were always a problem to get and handle.
If you have a satisfactory product and are selling it, you should continue to do so for the customers that depend on you.
Those customers arent threatening to quit using their services just because they don't have a new and improved version.
I hate when companies discontinue a product that I'm using.
jimmys devoted
11-21-2006, 08:03 PM
I ahd teh latitude and it wasnt all it was promoted to be. Granted it wasa hard case all inone where you coarry an insulin pen or vial and syringe the meter was right there and all you did was flip open a cover. Great idea.
The strips hwoever were temperature sensitive and sip technology wasnt accurate so you wasted struips. Its errors were numerous.
Half the time the pharmacies didnt even know what the strips were and were unavailable and when I did get them they were close to expiration.
So I can see why they did this. The logic was just boughtout by another company and all tehy did was change the name.
I am still sad that InCharge by LXN went away, it was an awesome tool.