Oral Fluid Screening Benefits Over Urine
Screening:
- Increased accuracy (up to 1000 times more precise)
- Increased reliability
- Increased compliance of donors (no more bashful bladders)
- Increased privacy for the donor (no embarrassment of being watched)
- No more false positives
- No more false negatives
- No more diluted samples
- No chance for donor to adulterate samples
- ‘Body cleansing’ products do not affect the accuracy of Oral Fluid
Screening - Decrease in time the collection process requires (5 min. vs. 15 to 30
min.) - No chance of collection site employee tampering with results
- All positive screens are further evaluated to identify the exact source of
the positive result (i.e. illegal drug use, proper use of prescription and
over the counter medications, and abuse of prescriptions or over the
counter medications)