The first home test approved by the FDA, Warner-Chilcott's e.p.t. (short for “early pregnancy test,” and later for “error-proof test”), came to market in 1976, followed soon after by the Predictor and a handful of others.

When did home pregnancy tests become available?

The first home pregnancy test, which appeared in drugstores in 1977, looked like a kid's chemistry set: it contained a vial of purified water, an angled mirror, a test tube and red blood cells taken from a sheep.

When did home pregnancy tests come out UK?

The thriving non-medical market for pregnancy testing paved the way for Britain's first do-it-yourself test kit, Predictor, in 1971. By then, some two-thirds of all women had heard of the once taboo subject of pregnancy testing.