News
06-Oct-2008 - New reference materials sourced
to meet the needs of the world’s leading
toxicologists
LGC Standards extends product range with new catalogue
for clinical, forensic and sports drugs applications
Testing for ‘designer drugs’, ‘legal highs’
and other novel materials is a continuing challenge for clinical,
forensic, sports testing and toxicology laboratories. The recent
meeting of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists
(TIAFT) highlighted a number of materials required for use as
reference compounds and internal standards in applications such as
testing for evidence of exposure to alcohol and drugs in substrates
including blood, urine and hair. LGC Standards is pleased to
announce that many of these new materials have now been sourced and
are included in our recently revised and relaunched catalogue
'Reference Materials for Clinical, Forensic and Sports Drugs
Applications'.
A particular example of an area of increasing
interest to analysts is plant-derived chemicals which have toxic or
psychoactive effects, or which can be used as precursors for
controlled drugs. Here too, LGC Standards has been able to source a
range of reference materials, such as kava alkaloids and Salvinorin
A (the active ingredient of Salvia divinorum), and these
phytochemical reference materials have also been included as a new
chapter of the catalogue.
These and many other new reference standards,
including deuterated materials, glucuronides and other metabolites,
are now available to laboratories carrying out analysis for drugs
of abuse, therapeutic drugs and sports doping agents, from LGC
Standards offices throughout Europe.
The chapter with reference standards for
clinical analysis is based on the Joint Committee for the
Traceability in Laboratory Medicine (JCTLM) database. Drugs,
enzymes, proteins and therapeutic drugs in blood, serum, urine and
hair have been sourced from all over the world.
LGC Standards simplifies the sourcing of
reference standards and can deal with the complex issue of legal
requirements in relation to international trade of controlled
substances. In addition, expert advice and assistance is available
to source substances that are not currenlty included in the
catalogue.
To obtain your copy of the new catalogue,
please contact LGC Standards by email at askus@lgcstandards.com or Tel:
+44 (0)20 8943 8480.