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- From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Approval sought for cocaine detection patch
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 07:58:02 GMT
- Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'
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- Anyone know anything specific about this? Cost? Accuracy? Is this device
- worn for a period of time and any drug use during this time shows up on it, or
- is it just an alternative to the hair/urine/blood tests?
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- clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI) writes:
- > MENLO PARK, Calif. (UPI) -- PharmChem Laboratories Inc. said Wednesday
- >that its marketing partner, Sudormed Inc., had filed for approval from
- >federal regualtors for a sweat collection patch to detect cocaine use.
- > A spokesman for PharmChem said the approval from the U.S. Food and
- >Drug Administration would probably take six months to a year.
- > PharmChem, which specializes in drug testing, and Sudormed, a
- >privately-held medical device producer, signed a license and supply
- >agreement last March for the drug detection patch.
- > PharmChem said the band-aid type patch can be used to detect use of
- >cocaine through laboratory analysis of sweat collected on it.
- > Jay Whitney, PharmChem's president and chief executive officer, said
- >the patch could be used in in drug testing programs conducted by
- >criminal justice agencies, drug treatment concerns and by businesses
- >monitoring employees on duty in safety-sensitive jobs.
- > Bill Miller, Sudormed's president and chief executive officer, said
- >his company plans FDA submittals of similar patches for detection of
- >marijuana, methamphetamine, opiates, PCP and alcohol during 1993.
- > Sale of drug testing services using the sweat patch cannot begin
- >until FDA approval is obtained.
- > PharmChem, of Menlo Park, Calif, earned $1.8 million, or 30 cents a
- >share, on sales of $20.3 million in the first nine months of this year.
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- Lamont Granquist lamontg@u.washington.edu
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