National Diagnostics

Welcome Beckman Liquid Scintillation Customers
Beckman Coulter's decision to exit the liquid scintillation market has left many researchers scrambling to find replacements for the no longer available Ready Safe brands. Beckman Coulter is recommending National Diagnostics as a source for replacement cocktails. Our product line offers the widest variety at the best prices available. National Diagnostics has prepared a resource especially for Beckman Coulter users to facilitate your transition to the most compatible of our cocktails.

National Diagnostics' extensive line of liquid scintillation cocktails—reflecting our 30 years of experience in the field—makes it easy to find a solution ideal for your application:

If You Are Currently Using: For Applications National Diagnostics Recommends Comments
Ready Safe Any  Ecoscint A Ideal for all around counting, gives very good efficiency, holding up to 4.5 mL of aqueous sample in 10 mL of cocktail
Ready Safe HP Adding under 1 mL sample to 10 mL cocktail Ecoscint H Excellent efficiency for smaller sample volumes
Ready Safe HP Adding over 1 mL sample to 10 mL cocktail Ecoscint A
Ready Flow II Flow applications Ecoscint Flow Our best flow cocktail—offers an unmatched combination of low viscosity, high mixing rate and high efficiency
Ready Organic Organic samples Ecoscint O Our biodegradable cocktail for organic samples
Ready Value/ Ready gel Non gelling Ecoscint XR Highest sample hold with very good efficiency
Ready Value/ Ready Gel Gelling Hydrofluor Offers gel counting for suspended solids
Ready Protein Plus Protein samples on filters Filtron-X Dissolves cellulose acetate filters for higher efficiency counting

The above recommendations apply to most common applications. For more specific advice tailored to your applications please call National Diagnostics technical support. We will be happy to run basic compatibility testing in our laboratory if needed.