Originally Posted by
t325
Yeah, same here. He asked me to confirm it was negative.
In fact, my negative line was pretty faint, and there was some pink bleeding up the side of the strip. I had used the non-proctored version of these tests before, the negative line was a very solid, visible pink and there wasn't anything bleeding up the side, the only pink was in a perfect, dark straight line across the negative part of it. Was my test defective? Did I do it right? Who knows, but it apparently was good enough for them.
My non-proctored versions are all at least two months newer than the proctored versions I had. The only difference I note is the reagent bottle design and maybe the reagent itself(?) is different. The test card inside where you insert the swab has the same date code proctored vs non-proctored. I agree all of my non-proctored tests have been very easy to read. Never managed to try the proctored version unfortunately.