How to Take the FIT

Have all of your supplies ready and in one place. Supplies include:

• Laboratory requisition
• Green capped sampling bottle
• Zip lock bag and cloth
• Collection paper
• Mailing envelope

Instructions: 

Click here for video instructions, available in Dene, Cree and English.

• Remove the sampling bottle from the package.
  Ensure that the name and date of birth are correct on the bottle. If it is not correct, contact eHealth at 1-800-667-7551 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
• Flush the toilet and then place the supplied collection paper inside the toilet bowl.
• Have your bowel movement on top of the collection paper or in a disposable clean, dry container.
• Open the green cap of the sampling container with a gentle twist and pull.
• Scrape the surface of the stool sample with the grooved portion of the green sampling wand before the paper sinks and stool touches the water in the toilet bowl. Only a small sample of stool is required.
• Insert the sampling wand back into the container and snap the green cap on tightly. Do not reopen.
• Wrap the sample container in the cloth and place it into the zip lock bag. Place the bag into the return envelope.
• Write the date you collected the sample on the laboratory requisition and place the form in the return envelope with your sample and seal the envelope shut.

Return the FIT.

• Return the envelope to an indoor Canada Post retail outlet or the nearest medical laboratory as soon as possible. You can find a list of lab drop off locations here.
• The test is time and temperature sensitive. The test should not be frozen. Do not place the test in an outdoor mailbox.

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