chain of custody drug testing

• The National Center for Drug Free Sport Ensures Secure Electronic Chain of Custody with Hand Held Products(TM); Sports Drug-Testing Company Uses Dolphin(R) 7900 Mobile Computers to ''Error Proof'' Information Collection.

SKANEATELES FALLS, N.Y. -- Hand Held Products, a leader in image-based mobile data collection systems, announced today that The National Center for Dr...

• Business Wire
• February 13, 2006

• Drug testing 101: detecting tainted samples.

There are a number of ways by which inmates try to adulterate urine samples submitted for drug testing. These techniques are aimed at escaping detection or invalidating test results. There are several elements essential in effective and defensible drug testing programs. Secure collection and a chain of custody are among these elements. Techniques to prevent or detect adulteration of urine samples for drug screening and confirmation analyses are presented.

• Corrections Today
• Vol. 60 Nbr. 6, October 1998

• Ferguson v. Charleston, 532 U.S. 67 (2001)

... of patients who tested positive for that drug, MUSC staff offered to cooperate with the city in ... set forth procedures for identifying and testing pregnant patients suspected of drug use; required that a chain of custody be followed when obtaining and testing ...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs:

... tests and strict procedures governing the chain of custody of specimens collected for drug testing...

• FR, June 10, 2011
• Notices
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

• Commentary: An Officer with a Troubling Past

In this week's issue, I reported on a new NOPD initiative that has police officers checking to see if the doors of cars parked on public streets are locked. If they are unlocked, the officers take it upon themselves to open the cars, without the owner's permission, and lock them. Officers leave notes on the windshields of inspected vehicles to inform the owner that either their car was locked or that it was found unlocked and properly secured.

... NOPD fired Officer Gary Guggenheim for testing positive for marijuana during a random drug screen... ruling and reinstated Guggenheim, citing "chain of custody" issues in the drug testing procedure. ...

• New Orleans City Business
• July 07, 2011

• Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs:

...Programs: Federal Drug Testing Custody and Control Form; Technical. Amendment. AGENCY: Of..., 49 CFR Part 40, must be collected using chain-of-custody procedures that incorporate the use of ...

• FR, September 27, 2010
• Rules
• Transportation Department

• Interstate Brands Corporation; Merita Bread Bakery Division, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants, v. Local 441 Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, Afl-Cio, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee., 39 F.3d 1159 (11th Cir. 1994)

... a truck driver who had tested positive for drugs. Merita argues that the arbitration award incorrec... of Transportation regulations regarding chain of custody requirements for the drug tests. We agr... which included DOT mandated drug-testing. At the appointed time, Hamrick presented himself ...

• Federal Circuits

• 10 CFR Appendix A to Part 26 - Guidelines for Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs

...Chain-of-custody. Procedures to account for the integrit...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 10: Energy

• Research Note: The Security of Urine Drug Testing

We studied 23 different commercial products for collecting, storing, securing, and mailing urine samples analyzed for illicit drug use. Despite their tamper-indicating features, all of these products can be quickly and easily tampered with, either before or after sample collection, while leaving little or (usually) no evidence to be detected. Either false-positive or false-negative drug test results could then occur. A brief review of other security practices and standards associated with urine drug testing suggests there may often be additional serious security problems. Given the importance of drug testing and the fact that illicit drug tests have a huge impact on people's careers, livelihoods, and reputations, better security, especially better tamper detection features, would seem w...

...Chain of custody for most drug testing programs is defin...

• Journal of Drug Issues
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 4, October 2009

• 10 CFR 26.129 - Assuring specimen security, chain of custody, and preservation.

...Subpart F: Licensee Testing Facilities. 26.129 - Assuring specimen security, ... validity screening and initial validity and drug tests. The original specimen bottles and the origi...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 10: Energy