The availability of saliva as a specimen anytime during the day, non invasiveness of the collection procedures, rapidity in collection and testing, easy interpretation of the results, and the comfort of testing has made the oral drug testing quite popular among employers. Oratect test is the qualitative analysis of the saliva or the oral fluids for the detection of drugs of abuse namely amphetamines, methamphetamines, marijuana, phencyclidine, opiates and cocaine. It is a chromatographic immuno assay, which is a one step procedure which can be used to detect the parent drugs directly with out the need to detect the presence of its metabolites.

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