Urine tested positive for ethyl glucuronide after trace amounts of ethanol

Addiction

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2007-2012

  Thierauf, Annette ^a   Halter, Claudia C ^a   Rana, Sumandeep ^b   Auwaerter, Volker ^a   Wohlfarth, Ariane ^a   Wurst, Friedrich M ^c   Weinmann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Redwood Toxicology Laboratory   (United States)

^c PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cut off; Ethyl glucuronide; Ethyl sulphate; LC MS MS; Unintentional ethanol uptake; Work place monitoring

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CREATININE; ETHYL GLUCURONIDE; ETHYL SULPHATE; SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATININE; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GLUCURONATES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; REFERENCE VALUES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449435214     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02722.x     Document Type: Article

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