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PBIOS exhibitor: Oral swab drug tests speed screening, cut costs

Premier Biotech's OralTox swab at the Permian Basin International Oil Show offers fast drug screening, QR chain of custody ...
Transport Topics

DOT’s Oral-Fluid Drug Testing Raises Safety Concerns

The addition later this year of oral-fluid drug testing for marijuana, which typically detects use only for up to 72 hours after use, could allow truck drivers to use the drug and avoid detection, ...
Fleet Owner

Oral-fluid drug testing on hold

June 1 was supposed to be the red-letter day for oral-fluid testing for drug use among transportation employees and truck drivers—except it wasn't. A year after proposed rulemaking, a May 2 decision ...
Fleet Owner

DOT to remove oral drug testing requirement as 'factual impossibility'

The Department of Transportation is revising a requirement that it calls an “inadvertent factual impossibility” from its drug testing procedures. A provision from DOT’s 2023 oral fluid drug testing ...
CCJ

Oral fluid drug test likely to put more 'cheaters' in FMCSA's Clearinghouse

The Department of Transportation on May 1 filed a 227-page Final Rule that allows oral fluid as an authorized testing method for the presence of unlawful drugs, giving fleets the option to subject ...

Oral testing device could help Clarksville Police Department detect drugged drivers within minutes

Clarksville police could soon have a new tool to help them catch drugged drivers: the SoToxa Mobile Test System.
Overdrive

Oral fluid drug testing approved by DOT

The Department of Transportation on Tuesday published a final rule that will allow oral fluid as an authorized testing method for the presence of unlawful drugs. The 227-page final rule will become ...
Truckinginfo

DOT Rule Allows Oral-Fluid Specimen Testing for Drugs

It’s been a long time in the works, but the U.S. Department of Transportation has published a final rule that amends the federal regulated industry drug-testing program to include oral fluid specimen ...
Transport Topics

DOT OKs Drug Testing Drivers Using Oral Fluid Samples

The U.S. Department of Transportation on May 1 announced the issuance of a final rule approving use of oral fluid to drug test truck drivers, a move made to deter cheating on urine-based examinations ...
CCJ

Oral fluid testing a significant shift in the drug screening landscape

Approval of oral fluid testing for DOT-regulated drug screening procedures is significant. However, despite the rule being published May 2, 2023, with an effective date of June 1, 2023, there's a ...
Ohsonline.com

Should Employers Consider Oral Fluid Drug Testing?

Substance abuse in the United States isn’t a new phenomenon and, in fact, drugs being abused today were once regarded as medicine. In the 19th century, for example, heroin and cocaine were approved ...