Laboratory-based Service for Oral Fluid Drug Testing

Discover the oral fluid solution to modern drug testing. The Intercept® oral fluid drug testing system provides a smart alternative to costly, inconveninet, and often embarassing drug testing.

Intercept® oral fluid testing system can detect NIDA-5 drug panel including marijuana, cocaine, opiates, amphetamines, and PCP- without the need to collect urine. Additional drug tests may be added to serve criminal justice and drug rehabilitation needs.
Use the donor-friendly collection pad to collect the oral fluid sample and send it to the laboratory for "next-day" reporting on negative results and a 48- to 72-hour turnaround for confirmed positives.

INTERCEPT®: Laboratory Confidence - Oral Fluid ConvenienceSM
Cost Efficiency
With urine-based testing, you are paying not only for test results, but also often for collection, scheduling, supervision, and training. And, what about the downtime while your candidate or employee visits an off-site collection facility?
Multiply your costs and hours by the number of individuals you test and it adds up quickly. With Intercept^TM testing, you reduce or eliminate collection fees, minimize scheduling issues, and greatly reduce lost work time. The improvements to your bottom-line will be noticeable.

Control the Process
Unlike urine samples, oral fluid samples can be collected anywhere, anytime. No special facilities are needed. With the Intercept® system you have the option of collecting samples in-house - which means no scheduling hassles or collection fees. The collection process can take place in a small conference room or in an office rather than in a rest room. The Intercept® system makes it easier for you to test candidates or employees at multiple locations. A training procedure is available for all staff involved in the collection process.
With the Intercept® collection pad, the donor can easily provide a sample and seal it in the special shipping vial in about 3 minutes. Just place the specicum vial and chain-of -custody form into a convenient shipper for overnight delivery to the central lab. The laboratory uses proven immunoassay processes and reports negative results the same day the sample(s) are tested. Positive results are confirmed using GC / MS / MS, the "Gold Standard," and are reported within 48 to 72 hours.

Less Embarrassing
The act of urinating in a cup is at best demeaning and can be awkward for both the person being tested and the collector. The Intercept® system delivers a safer, more dignified and observable collection method. The dignity of the collection method is a real benefit.

Nearly Eliminate Risk of Adulteration
Drug users have many options to try beating a urine test. Intercept® oral fluid drug testing nearly eliminates the risk of adulteration. It is virtually impossible for donors providing oral fluid samples to mask drugs in their system. Intercept® collections can always be directly observed. "Beating the system" just became more difficult.

The Next Generation of Drug Testing
Drug use and abuse in the workplace is a serious threat to all businesses regardless of size.

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BENEFITS:
Cost
Oral fluid can be significantly less than traditional urine testing. The economic advantage of the Intercept® oral fluid testing is that it can reduce the cost of collections, scheduling fees, and the time lost for employees and/or candidates to travel to collection sites to provide their urine samples. Traditional urine test collection alone can cost $15.00 to $45+ depending on location.
Detection Window
Just like traditional urine testing, the window in oral fluid testing is different for each drug. Oral fluid testing identifies recent usage - during the first 24 hours after drug use - that can be missed with urine testing. For most drugs, the window of detection on oral fluid is about 1 to 3 days. A peer-reviewed study of more than 70,000 tests showed Intercept® oral fluid testing detected workplace drug use just as reliably as workplace urine testing.
Turnaround Time
The Lab receives the samples via overnight courier, tests them the day they arrive and reports negative results that same day. Positive results are confirmed, reviewed, and reported within 72 hours of receipt.

ORAL FLUID TESTING:
Simple collection process
Difficult to adulterate
Collectors are not exposed to potentially infectious urine samples
Collection is done outside of medical environment
Oral Fluid Drug Testing


INTERCEPT® - The Oral Fluid Drug Test
The Pad
The pad is treated with a salt solution to enhance collection. This solution is non-toxic and non-harmful. All ingredients on the pad are on the FDA Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) list.
Sample Preservation
The vial contains a blue, non-toxic preservative that keeps the oral fluid sample from deteriorating during the overnight shipment to the lab.
Donor Preparation and Concerns
Donor should not have anything in his/her mouth within 10 minutes of providing a sample. Recent oral surgery (i.e., extractions, root canal, etc.) or sutures will not affect the collection. Keeping the collection pad in the donor's mouth for at least 2 minutes is ample to collect enough oral fluid sample to complete the test - even for very dry mouths.
Adulteration Issues
Can the oral fluid test be adulterated? A wide range of adulterants have been studied and nothing has been found that can adulterate this oral fluid test. Some donors may attempt to introduce something into the collection pad or specimen vial.

This risk is highly unlikely since every collection is directly and easily observable.