Adventure Medical Kits
Littleton, New Hampshire, 1989 — first-aid kits laid out by injury rather than by item, built in the same house as SOL, Counter Assault and the consumer QuikClot line.
My Medic
North Salt Lake, Utah — the direct-to-consumer kit brand whose legal identity changed hands in January 2026, and whose own pages tell you which components came from where.
My Medic builds first-aid and trauma kits for the direct-to-consumer market from North Salt Lake, Utah. In January 2026 Acme United Corporation announced it had acquired the assets of SLED Distribution, LLC d/b/a My Medic for $18.7 million, which is why the brand's older documents name one company and its current terms and privacy pages name another. The most useful thing on its own site is unglamorous — a plain statement that kits are assembled in Utah from components sourced across eight named countries.
- $18.7MWhat Acme United announced it paid for the assets of SLED Distribution, LLC d/b/a My Medic, January 2026
- ~$19MMy Medic's 2025 revenues, per that same acquisition release
- 8 countriesComponent sources named in My Medic's own FAQ, alongside assembly in Utah
What we'd reach for
- MyFAK and MyFAK LargeThe house kits. Notable for a choice the company offers rather than hides — buyers select between two tourniquet designs, and each device's own labeling governs what it is for.
- MyFAK MiniThe small-format version, same component-origin caveats. Contents lists per SKU are the only reliable source for what is inside.
- ReconThe trauma-leaning pack in the range. Any hemostatic, airway or decompression component inside carries its own regulatory status, which is not the kit's.
My Medic is a kit company that got very good at the internet, and that is not a criticism. Its packaging photographs well, its contents are labeled by function, and it built a direct-to-consumer business large enough to be bought. The question a buyer should ask about any such company is the same one that applies to Adventure Medical Kits: what did the brand actually make, and what did it purchase?
My Medic answers that more directly than most.
Who owns it now
On 15 January 2026, Acme United Corporation announced that it had acquired “the assets of SLED Distribution, LLC. (d/b/a ‘My Medic’)” for $18.7 million, with part of the consideration contingent on revenue milestones running through the end of 2027 and part held back for indemnification. The release gives My Medic’s 2025 revenues as “approximately $19 million” and locates the business in North Salt Lake, Utah.
The word doing the work there is assets. An asset purchase leaves the selling entity’s name behind in older paperwork, which is exactly what a reader runs into: some documents name SLED Distribution, LLC, while the current terms of service — last updated 22 July 2026 — and the current privacy policy, effective 20 July 2026, both name ACME United Corporation at 1 Waterview Drive, Shelton, Connecticut.
Two names, one business, in sequence. What is still not published anywhere we could find is the brand’s founding year or its founders, so this page carries neither.
What the FAQ admits
The most valuable page on the site is the boring one. My Medic’s FAQ states: “All First Aid Kits are made at our headquarters in North Salt Lake, Utah.” Immediately alongside, it states: “Our products are sourced from several countries including the United States, Germany, Israel, Canada, China, South Africa, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.”
Keeping those two sentences apart is the whole discipline of buying kits. Assembly in Utah is a real fact about labor and quality control. It is not a country-of-origin claim for the gauze, the shears, the tourniquet or the medication inside, and My Medic — to its credit — does not pretend otherwise.
The same FAQ notes that on the MyFAK Mini, MyFAK, MyFAK Large and Recon, buyers choose between a RATS and a windlass tourniquet. Which device is appropriate for which situation is a question for the device’s own labeling and for training organizations, not for a kit vendor and not for this page. That the choice is offered at all is worth knowing before ordering.
Where they fall down
The component list stops at the country. Naming eight sourcing countries is more than most competitors do; naming the manufacturer of each component would be more useful still, and nobody in this category does it.
A kit has no regulatory status of its own. Every device, drug and dressing inside carries its own clearance, labeling and expiry. No FDA clearance applies to a bag. The FAQ’s note that “All products on our site are HSA/FSA approved, with the exception of some survival tools” is a tax-eligibility statement, not a medical one.
The history is missing. No founding year, no founders, no company story on a primary page — unusual for a brand that sells on trust and personality.
The bag outlives the contents. My Medic warrants the bag for life. The medications and dressings inside expire on their own schedules, and a lifetime warranty on the container is a quiet reminder that the maintenance job is the buyer’s.
Where My Medic fits
Households and vehicles. Well-organized, well-labeled, and priced so that buying one and actually opening it is realistic.
As a starting point, not an endpoint. Serious users generally add or replace components from sources like North American Rescue and check every expiry date on arrival.
Not for: agencies and contract buyers who need documented, specification-led configurations — that is Chinook Medical territory — or anyone who wants a per-component manufacturer list.
Why we rate them
They separate assembly from sourcing in writing. That single pair of sentences is the most honest thing in the consumer kit market.
The new owner is a public company. Acme United’s disclosures mean the ownership chain behind this brand is now readable, which is not true of most of its rivals.
The gaps are the ordinary ones. Missing founding date, missing component manufacturers — worth noting, not disqualifying, and the reason this one sits on the watchlist rather than higher.
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North American Rescue
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