It may come as a surprise that some drug test kits don’t actually detect the drug named on the kit. Instead, the kits detect one or more metabolites of the drug…
Third Hand Smoke: The Silent Killer
Ever take a whiff of a smoker’s hair and feel faint from the pungent scent of cigarette smoke? Or perhaps you have stepped into an elevator…
Questions from our Mailbag
Q. Do our BAT and Collector certifications need to be posted for the patients to see, or do they just need to be posted somewhere in the clinic, or do they even have to be posted at all?
Why Are Drug Test Kits Read Backwards? – Competitive Immunoassay Explained
On-site drug test kits form a line to indicate the presence or absence of drug in a specimen. A first-time operator typically expects that the drug test will form a line to indicate a positive result….
What’s a QAP?
Manufacturers of DOT breath alcohol testing instruments are required to write a Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) for each instrument that is approved for DOT alcohol testing. Manufacturers submit their QAP to DOT for approval.
Two Year Warranty
Intoximeters recently announced that all DOT instruments will now carry a two-year factory warranty. Following is a list of instruments that are covered by the new warranty policy….
FDA recommends tightening access to pain-killers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended tighter restrictions on products that contain hydrocodone…
Uncooperative Employees in the DOT Testing Process Present Challenges
Although most specimen collections go smoothly, as a professional specimen collector in the Department of Transportation (DOT) drug testing process you may sometimes be confronted by uncooperative donors.
Insufficient Breath – What to do?
Most instruments automatically sample a subject’s deep lung breath without the need for the operator to do anything but hold the instrument. But what about the subject who can’t – or won’t – blow hard and long enough to achieve an adequate breath sample? feature called “automatic breath sampling.”….
How Does It Know? – Automated Breath Sampling
For the past 20 years most advanced breath alcohol testing instruments have incorporated a feature called “automatic breath sampling.”….
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