“The customized swab, and more importantly, the team at Puritan who worked with us—starting with our rep—provided us with the perfect sampling tool. And, we’re excited to see the results of this research using this swab.”
— Emily Curd, Research Associate, University of California

Why Puritan

Here at Puritan Medical Products, LLC, we are known world-wide as the most trusted manufacturer of healthcare and critical environmental products since 1919. This fact has resulted in an ever-expanding product line that takes advantage of the most up-to-date materials and manufacturing processes to deliver innovative solutions for even the most demanding applications. As a fully integrated manufacturer, our products are manufactured, quality-controlled, packaged, and shipped from our state-of-the-art ISO 9001:2008 registered manufacturing facility in Guilford, Maine.

At Puritan, we offer an array of medical, diagnostic and critical environment products ranging from tongue depressors to cotton, rayon, calcium alginate, nylon flock and polyester-tipped applicators to our Puritan exclusives such as the Puritan DNA-free swabs, the Puritan Popule Self-Saturating Swab, the Puritan Wound Measuring Device and our PurFlock brand applicators. We offer shaft materials in wood, plastic stainless steel, and aluminum. We have a wide selection of specialty products for OB/GYN, diagnostic, and forensic applications, as well as new products in development all the time.

Our PurSwab line offers plenty of choice for the non-medical applications. Look for foam-tipped cleaning applications that are gentle enough for delicate equipment, yet manufactured to withstand your most common solvents. Our evolving product line includes, but is not limited to, chemical-resistant applicators, swabs for lint-sensitive applications, static-resistant applicators, specialty foam tipped applicators, an industrial version of the Puritan Self-Saturating Swab, as well as many more. For your convenience, we also offer wooden stirring blades as well as orange sticks.

At Puritan, we pride ourselves on our ability to customize. If you don't see a Puritan or PurSwab product that fits your needs, please talk to us. We welcome the opportunity to adapt to an existing product or engineer something entirely new product that will fit your application.

Competitive Research Study shows Puritan’s foam swabs provide superior influenza detection. A recent study conducted by Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio has concluded that Puritan's foam swabs outperform flocked swabs for detecting influenza.