False-positive ethyl glucuronide immunoassay screening caused by a propyl alcohol-based hand sanitizer

Forensic Science International

Volumn 223, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 359-363

  Arndt, Torsten ^a   Grüner, Joachim ^b   Schröfel, Stefanie ^a   Stemmerich, Karsten ^a  

^a Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics   (Germany)

^b MKG Schmidseder   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Ethyl glucuronide; False positive; Immunoassay; LC MS MS; Propanol

Indexed keywords

1 PROPYL GLUCURONIDE; 2 PROPYL GLUCURONIDE; ETHYL GLUCURONIDE; GLUCURONIDE; PROPANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOL ANALYZER; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HAND SANITIZER; HUMAN; HYGIENE PRODUCT; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 84870302790     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.10.024     Document Type: Article

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