Essais inter-laboratoires sur la salive (toxicologie)
- UKAS accredited proficiency testing scheme
- External Quality Assessment (EQA) designed for laboratories and on-site screening clinics that provide routine services for detection of drugs in oral fluid
- Participants receive sets of three test materials at quarterly intervals with 4 weeks being allowed for drug analysis
- Test materials consist of 1.7ml oral fluid obtained from volunteers and known drug users
- Mixtures of drugs with their metabolites from 6 major classes:-
- - Amfetamines & stimulants
- Cannabinoids
- Cocaine & metabolites
- Minor tranquillizers
- Non-opiate narcotics
- Opiates - Participants select to make their reports relative to one of two sets of threshold drug concentrations
- Thresholds are recommended by the European Workplace Drug Testing Society
- Scheme operates from September to March
Round dates
DO120 | 27 Jun 2016 | 01 Aug 2016 |
DO121 | 26 Sep 2016 | 31 Oct 2016 |
DO122 | 28 Nov 2016 | 09 Jan 2017 |
DO123 | 06 Mar 2017 | 10 Apr 2017 |
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