| What are the common drugs of abuse and how do they work? |
| Alcohol: Alcohol, while a legal drug, is often abused and habitual use can lead to addiction and significant physical and psychological health problems. Alcohol is rapidly metabolized by the liver into its principle chemical components including carbon dioxide and sugars. Alcohol is within the family of depressant drugs with symptoms including slurred speech, loss of motor coordination and impaire...
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| How long do your clean urine samples last and how should they be stored? |
| Samples should be stored in a refrigerator. If stored for extended periods of time then they should be frozen. The integrity of our samples is ensured by our proprietary vacuum seal. As long as the sample remains in its vacuum seal it may be kept at room temperature away from direct sunlight for days at a time. It will be good for up to six months, in the vacuum seal, if stored in the refrigerator...
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| How should I thaw my frozen urine sample? |
| When ready for use drug free urine samples may brought up to acceptance temperature simply by running under hot water until the temperature strip displays between 90-99 degrees Fahrenheit. After thawing and achieving proper temperature make sure to shake the sample well so that any present particles dissolve completely. The samples should be thawed at a slow and constant rate so as to hinder cryst...
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| Does transportation affect urine and bacterial viability? |
| Customers often ask about the preferred method of transporting urine samples to the laboratory for culture, and the effect of transport time and storage temperature on the viability of organisms.
To address these questions, the following study was performed: Urine samples with pyuria (n=18) submitted to Antech's Houston laboratory were divided into several aliquots. One aliquot was inoculated i...
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| Is temperature really that important? |
| Temperature is the most important aspect of passing a urinalysis. Testing centers check for proper temperature because keeping the urine at the proper level is one of the hardest things to do when substituting or diluting the specimen. In fact centers rely on temperature as the primary method of checking whether substitution has occurred during testing. Our kit is specifically designed to take car...
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| How long will the drug-free urine sample keep its temperature? |
| As long as you have it stored close to your body (under arm pit, inner thigh) the temperature will remain constant. Your body heat and chemical heat pads included with your clean urine kit will maintain acceptable temperature for 10 hours. Complete instructions on use and placement are included with all our drug test kits....
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| How do I know this urine is clean? |
| Our donors undergo a routine urinalysis systematically to check for any illegal and controlled substances. The test also makes sure that the urine is disease free. BUT REMEMBER URINE IS A BIOHAZARD therefore it should be handled with care and absolutely NEVER taken internally....
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| Is there a difference between animal and human urine? |
| Yes, screens for example test for lgG which is a normal unique component of human urine. Unlike Creatine, human lgG is exclusive to human body fluids and is not present in any other liquids or animal urine. Consequently, if lgG is not present or cannot be detected in a urine sample, the sample is taken to be either non human urine, or one which has been diluted or otherwise contaminated by additio...
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