Oral Fluid Testing
There is currently no Australian Standard to regulate oral fluid testing. However oral fluid is rapidly gaining popularity as a substance for testing drugs of abuse. Collection of sample is easy and there is no requirement for special collection facilities. There is, however, no link between urine and oral fluid results as drugs have different detection times in urine and oral fluid and different drugs and /or metabolites are present in these fluids. As for urine testing, oral fluid testing kits are designed to detect five main groups of drugs of abuse. Positive specimens must be tested in a laboratory with GC/MS methodology in order to obtain a confirmed analytical result.
Sonic Clinical Institute is able to provide GC/MS confirmation testing for oral fluid samples.
The oral fluid samples are analysed for the presence of the following drugs:
Turn-around time for analysis of oral fluid specimens is 48 hours per drug class . Reports can be obtained electronically, by fax or hard copy.