Wipes detect drug use by employees

[chillinwill]

From: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/ne...c-cfec5ff100a2

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SPRING HILL, Fla. -- John Consoli wants to get rid of drugs in the workplace, one telephone handset at a time.

Consoli, 67, is the president of On Site, a Spring Hill, Fla., company marketing DrugWipe, a handheld narcotic detector.

Just swipe the DrugWipe against a keyboard or any other surface, Consoli said, and the toothbrush-sized detector can tell whether anyone who has touched the surface in the past 72 hours had drugs in his or her system.

"It is 100-per-cent accurate," Consoli said. "It is the only product that I know of that is defensible in court."

The technology comes from Europe, where law enforcement tested suspected "drugged drivers." DrugWipe also has been used in the United States by the FBI, DEA and Customs Service, Consoli said.

Now, he wants to bring it to the private sector. The device tests for cocaine, cannabis, methamphetamine and opiates. Because the drugs travel from the user's glands and are deposited on the surface, there's almost no way to fool the test.

"It's in your system. If you've done drugs, it's in your glands," Consoli said. "How do you adulterate your sweat?" Pinning down a corporation that used DrugWipe was difficult. Since Consoli is just starting out, he hasn't actually had any clients.

A DrugWipe kit costs about $50 and can be used to check 10 to 15 surfaces. Testers must be trained and certified. Training takes a half-day and costs $500. Companies can also hire an On Site professional to test workplace surfaces; prices vary.

[Figaro]

I can tell this guy is trying to sell this Wipes. Not even urine test are 100%, this guy want us to buy this 100% at face value. I wonder how many studies he has done to make such ridiculus 100% accurate Kaka.

At best Urine test are 90% accurate and that is bad science at best, but allowed in courts. Although we do not accept 90% on any thing else that requieres science to back up. In science you have to have at least 98% as the lowest accurate rate.

They are trying to sell us 100% when nothing ever is 100% when true science is used.

Another missinformation of the War on Drugs.