Monday, October 4, 2010

Drug Testing at Workplaces


Drug testing has become a handy tool in order to find out if a worker is under the influence of drug while being at work or if the person has any long history of drug abuse. There are several tests to excavate the truth if a worker is drug addicted or not. The test is mandatory in many reputed organizations throughout the world to create a perfect working environment and ensure wellbeing of the workers too.

On-site drug testing is very common and also the best option for office environment. The result is handed over quickly and it helps the authority spring into immediate action against those who have been found guilty of drug abuse. In case of on-site drug testing, samples are collected on the spot and therefore, the chance of cheating is very slim.

Drug testing can be done in a myriad of ways. The test differs on the basis of samples used for drug detection and the test is named after the used sample. Urine drug testing is the most common of all the drug detecting tests. The test result is available within a few minutes. The main disadvantage of urine drug testing is that the sample can only be collected in privacy and therefore the chance of cheating can not be ruled out.

Saliva drug testing has gained popularity as an convenient medium of drug detection. A sponge is used to collect saliva and when it is saturated with saliva, it is taken out and placed on a testing device from which the lab technicians can easily read the result.

Hair drug testing is the most popular and accurate of all. It is also very easy to collect the samples. Only a few strands of hair follicles are cut off to know if the person has a record of drug abuse. If a person is bald or has got his head shaved, then body hair is used for testing.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

A small guide on saliva drug testing


Drug testing is not only mandatory in human beings personally but also in their work places so that they do not face any kind of trouble while working with the other co workers. Not only the regular employees but also those employees who are in the career of sports should compulsorily do the drug testing so that they do not do nay harm to their co players. There are many ways in which this drug testing can take place. These ways are as follows: saliva, blood samples, urine samples and hair samples. Saliva drug testing is the easiest of all. And moreover saliva drug testing is the most widely used way of testing the presence of drug in some one’s body.

Saliva drug testing is so very widely populated among the masses due to several reasons. These reasons include easiness and acceptance in its using technique and in addition to this saliva drug testing gives faster yet reliable results. There are furthermore few important facts of saliva drug testing that should be known by the individuals who want to perform the saliva drug testing on someone or on themselves. In the process of saliva drug testing the traces of drugs are found in the saliva of the victim on whom saliva drug testing is being performed. Therefore another name for saliva drug testing is oral fluid drug testing. The saliva drug testing is done with the help of a strip that contains antigen dyne. This antigen dyne plays the role of an indicator. If the color of the strip changes then the result of drug test is positive and if the color does not change then the result is negative.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Few facts about hair drug testing

Hair drug testing is a very accurate test for drugs which can help to know whether there are drugs present or not in your body. But one very important thing should be kept in mind that the hair drug testing should be executed within the span of three months or ninety days from the day one when an individual inhales drugs. Hair drug testing is famous for its reliability among the masses. Some people are so clever that they try to get away from this hair drug testing by going bald but in reality they are not able to escape. This blog will help you to know more about some other facts of this hair drug testing. The hair drug testing to be precise is the simplest and the most prominent ways of testing drugs that is present in a human’s body.

People who try to escape the hair drug testing by going bold do not realize the fact that the roots of the hairs that grow are grown from the bottom of an human skull so even if any goes bald then the hairs that will come from the skull will be enough evidence for the detectors to detect weather there is drug present inside the body or not. The reason how the drugs are tested in the hairs is due to the reason that after a body of any human takes drugs then the chemicals of the drugs are deposited in the skull’s surface. As a result of that the hair drug testing can easily sense the left over chemicals of the drugs. Thus people who are addicted to drugs on regular basis should immediately take measures to quit that or else they can be severely punished.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Bird’s eye view on finger print impression testing

If we talk about various forensic tests, the first thing that comes to our mind is the finger print impression testing. The term finger print impression testing is stapled with the forensic as well as the investigation departments. Even in movies whenever we come across a crime scene, surely we are shown few techniques of finger print impression test. The finger print impression test is executed by the forensic department, which is a matchless and private type of test to spot a clue of a crime and the criminal. The forensic science or simply forensic is a department of science which gives effort to answer various question which deals with the interest of the legal system of a city or state. The department of forensic is in relation with a crime or a civil action.


There are several tests and techniques which are helpful to find out the criminal who has committed a crime in a city or state. This becomes easier if the data of the criminal is available in the record file of the forensic department. The finger print impression testing is one of the prime most forensic tests that are very helpful to identify or trace the criminal. The finger print impression test is also known as an identification test of the crime. The most interesting fact of this finger print impression testing is that the finger prints of the murderer or criminal which is collected from the palm impression of the culprit is unique and will have no resemblance with anyone else’s finger print on earth. There are various devices and methods which are used for finger print impression test.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

What is Digital finger printing technology?

The criminals keep on doing misdeeds and they think that they are too clever to leave any clue for the investigators, but they are unaware of the strict legal rules and the advancements in the field of science and forensic department. Out of all new technology the digital finger printing technology is really interesting to know and follow. The digital fingerprinting is widely applicable in today’s modern day and age. It is a development of the internet and multimedia techniques. Since the transfer of data via multimedia and internet has increased a lot, so the necessity of securing the data has also become very important.

We know that the data that is send from one user to the other user is surely secured by encrypting it (which the sender does positively before sending) but the security finishes especially at the receiver’s end when decryption of the data is done. Digital fingerprinting is a kind of application which will protect the data from the unauthorized users. Whenever a theft of data takes place, then the digital finger printing is used to find out the thief or culprit. The method is very easy. A hidden ID is fixed into each user’s copy while interchanging of any data. This ID helps the user to catch the thief.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Myth about fingerprinting test

Each person has a unique set of fingerprint was first invented by the Chinese people around two thousand years ago. The concept that they invented was useful previously for some reason and now the reason has changed for which this old concept was useful. This unique thought was used previously other things like official documents for example tax record and many other prime sector of an office which should be done by social candidates appointed by them and any one as outsider was not allowed. But now a day the trend of fingerprinting has definitely changed with the advancement in technology and science. Now mostly the finger printing test is used in the forensic department for verifying the finger of a criminal from a criminal record. These criminals can be robbers, murderers, kidnapers, thieves, drug addict and drug dealers or any other crime field in which a victim is involved. The process of fingerprinting testing is very easy. The victim’s hand is filled with a type of ink which is spread on that finger whose fingerprinting test has to be done. Then the victim can place his hand on a transparent sheet of glass or on any other normal paper. The fingerprints with which the victim’s fingerprints are to be matched they are taken previously. The process to take the fingerprints of a person is very easy. The detectives or the forensic investigators move a brush on the surface area from where he or she will take the fingerprints then by spreading a powder type of thing the fingerprints will be visible.