[Diabetes-talk] FDA Warning Re BG Meters Using GDH-PQQ StripTechnology

[Joy Stigile]

Dear Mike,
I use the AccuChek VoiceMate so I went to click on to the link but it said I 
needed a password.  Can you help?

Your not use to going onto website friend, Joy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:01 PM
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] FDA Warning Re BG Meters Using GDH-PQQ 
StripTechnology


> Greetings, all.
>
> Below, please find a link to an article by Dr. Bill Quick of "Diabetes
> Monitor" describing a recent warning by FDA about blood glucose meters
> whose strips use what is known as GDH-PQQ chemistry. Basically, if
> patients are taking certain drugs or therapies which involve ingestion
> of sugars other than glucose, these strips can give falsely high
> readings (since the strips do not differentiate between glucose and
> certain other sugars), possibly leading to injecting insulin to bring
> the supposed high readings down when in reality the bg was not too high,
> possibly resulting in hypoglycemia. I do not know whether the Prodigy
> Voice strips use GDH-PQQ technology but the AccuChek VoiceMate certainly
> does.
>
> Kelly, do you know?
>
> In any event, read on.
>
> Mike Freeman
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <JMFreeman at bpa.gov>
> To: <k7uij at panix.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:57 AM
> Subject: Mike Freeman has sent you an article
>
>
>
>
> You have received this message from Mike Freeman (JMFreeman at bpa.gov) as
> a courtesy of MyDiabetesCentral.com. To read the page your friend has
> recommended, visit:
>
> http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/110/84863/fda-warning-glucose
>
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