Pocket Travel First Aid Kit

Do any supplies in the first aid kits expire?

Where required an expiry date is on the individual item.

‘Shelf life’ is the term or period during which a component remains suitable for the intended use. An expiry date is the termination of shelf life, after which a percentage of the component, e.g., medical devices, may no longer function as intended.

See below for the expiry dates of our first aid kits contents that have an expiry:

• Adhesive dressings: 3 years
• Combine dressing: 5 years
• Cotton gauze swabs: 5 years
• Eye pads: 5 years
• Hydrogel: 2 years
• Hydrogel dressing: 5 years
• Non adherent wound dressings: 5 years
• Saline: 5 years
• Skin cleaning wipes: 2 years
• Splinter probes: 5 years
• Wound closures: 2 years
• Wound dressings: 5 years