Sports doping is the illegal use of certain performance-enhancing drugs and blood products, including anabolic steroids, hormones, stimulants, diuretics, and beta blockers. Ensuring that sport remains fair is important to fans, sponsors and the vast majority of competitors. Chemetrix is proud to help combat these threats to fair competition through our various solutions for doping control.
Forensic Toxicology analysis determines the presence or absence of drugs and drug metabolites, chemicals, volatile substances, gases and metals in human tissues and other materials for law enforcement purposes. Whether you need to screen and confirm known compounds, identify unknowns, or advance forensic research, we have solutions to meet your needs – today, and in the future.
Impaired driving is a public health and safety concern and toxicological testing is a critical part of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) investigations. Chemetrix’s solutions help you meet your laboratory testing challenges to produce reproduceable and defensible data. Our GC/MS Blood Alcohol Analyzer supports DUI testing.
Urine screening is the most common method used in workplace drug testing. A typical urine drug test screens for 5-10 drugs, such as amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cocaine, marijuana, opiates, nicotine, and alcohol, and these tests are highly accurate. A urinalysis will show the presence of a drug in the system, even after the drug effects have worn off.
Oral fluid (saliva) analysis is increasingly popular as a forensic drug testing matrix because samples can be easily collected, collection is non-invasive, and samples are less susceptible to substitution or adulteration. Saliva drug tests can detect drug usage within a few hours up to 2 days and can be used to test for alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana (THC), opiates, amphetamines, phencyclidine (PCP), and methamphetamines.
Hair follicles provide a record of drug use over long periods of time – up to 90 days. Hair testing is very challenging – nearly impossible – to cheat, even if an employee briefly stops using. Many drugs of abuse can be successfully detected using hair testing, including benzodiazepines, cocaine, marijuana (THC, cannabinoids), amphetamines, and more. Agilent provides state-of-the-art GC/MS/MS or LC/MS/MS methods to measure a variety of drugs of abuse in hair.
Maintaining compliance and ensuring that businesses and their employees are fully protected often demands rigorous and ongoing drug testing in a number of sectors, particularly in high-risk jobs, or roles with a public safety focus. In addition, non legally-regulated testing can also impact on insurance costs or other forms of employee protection, and should be approached equally robust methods. Chemetrix provides a range of testing solutions with sample prep to ensure testing efficiency, and feature custom training and reporting templates, and a range of consumables for enhanced, flexible performance.
Proven Solutions for Clinical Research Applications.
LC/MS provides a selective, cost-effective, and efficient method to analyze your target compounds. The new miniature Agilent Ultivo Triple Quadrupole LC/MS perfectly fits into the new Agilent 1260 Infinity II Prime LC system stack to open up bench space offering the highest ease-of-use and functionality. The Agilent Triple Quadrupole LC/MS systems and Agilent Q-TOF LC/MS systems help you routinely quantify, identify, and elucidate your compounds of interest, delivering fast, sensitive, and robust methods. MassHunter Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis software delivers fast results and interpretation though advanced analytical tools.
GC/MS enables the screening of a large number of target compounds with improved productivity and reliability. The Agilent 5977B GC/MS system helps you confirm compound identity and accurately quantitate target compounds in complex matrices – all within a single analysis.
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