Citation

Kim VJ, Okano CK, Osborne CR, Frank DM, Meana CT, Castaneto MS. Drug Test. Anal. 2019; 11(2): 331-335.

Affiliation

Tripler Army Medical Center Forensic Toxicology Drug Testing Laboratory, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/dta.2497

PMID

30194711

Abstract

Synthetic urine (SU), which was primarily utilized by drug testing laboratories as matrix for quality control preparations, are now commercially sold and can be used to "fool" a positive drug test. To determine if SU can pass as authentic urine, we challenged Army urine drug testing collection and testing procedures using eight different commercial SU products. Adulteration (Sciteck AdultaCheck® 6) and Onsite SU (Synthetic UrineCheck^TM ) test strips were also evaluated. Five of the eight SU were identified by physical observation. All SU products screened negative in the drug immunoassay and additionally passed the SVT as authentic urine. Furthermore, SU was not detected as adulterated with the adulteration test strips (Sciteck AdultaCheck® 6) but was successfully detected as synthetic urine with the On-site synthetic urine (Synthetic UrineCheck^TM ). To deter SU use, direct observation, as utilized by the military may be recommended during the collection process.

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Language: en

Keywords

drug abuse; synthetic urine; urine adulteration; workplace drug testing