How long is urine usable for drug test

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How long is human urine good for? Thread starter mike Start date Jun 19, If I have a friend pee for me into a bottle or whatever, how long will that last? I do not really want to freeze it if I do not have to. How does that work? If it isn't a state or government job, just an office job in a facility that does productions and assembly. What should I be ready for? Will they make me get into a robe?

How do people deal with pre-employment screens that include a physical? Besides, you might want to freeze the urine if you intend to stop taking some prescribed drugs pain management medications, for instance that your doctor will be testing on regularly. This is important, especially if several other people will be storing their urine in the same refrigerator or freezer. But you need to be very careful since the risk of overheating and ruining the urine quality is very high.

There are several other safer ways of warming urine for a drug test than heating it in a microwave. These are disposable pads that heat and hold urine at the required temperature range until you are through with the test. Whether you are trying to keep a bag of urine warm for use in a few hours or if you want to store it for a few months, all the nitty-gritty details from the collection point to how you thaw it matter a big deal.

It all boils down to ensuring that the sample is not contaminated along the way or gives the bacteria in the urine a favorable condition to proliferate and break down the urine components at a higher rate. If you need to store the urine for up to 24 hours, you should store it in a Celcius fridge temperature. If you need to store urine for a long time, you need to keep the temperature below 0 Celcius. Urine is most likely to be contaminated by bacteria, which may cause the composition of the urine sample to change, and you may end up with inconclusive results, which will force you to take another test.

When collecting the urine, you will need to be very careful about how you handle the sample. To ensure that the urine is not contaminated, the storage option you choose should be very clean.

It is also necessary to use gloves while handling the containers or bags to prevent the sweat from the hands from contaminating the urine. Since urine is considered a biological hazard, make sure that it is stored in a safe location so that the urine sample does not contaminate other surfaces.

Since this is the defining factor of the whole process, how you store the urine sample is eventually going to affect the results of the drug test. The storage option you will use will depend on the amount of time you have before the test. The further away the test is, the more airtight and safe you need your storage item to be. The best option for storing a urine sample in the refrigerator will be to use a container, as a bag has higher chances of leaking.

All you need to do is search for a good friend and swap his or her urine with them. The only challenge would be for you to sneak it into the lab. The funny thing is that there is plastic prosthesis out there that produces fake urine samples. It aids you to sneak urine samples that are not yours into the pee point without turning positive. It neither smells nor produces like normal pee.

It is, however, good enough to get the job done. The liquid may however not contain uric acid which is one of the constituent most labs search for. If you are however using real human urine, there are several disadvantages associated with it. Urine is not something you can keep anyhow. The moment it is out of your body, it begins to oxidize and thus decompose. One does not need to be an Albert Einstein to detect an anomaly if week-old urine is submitted.

The sample should be fresh. Also, the sample should be as warm as the human body temperature. All tests are not without their failings. Investigations carried out in various testing labs have recorded high levels of error due to poor quality control.

The move to extend drug tests to more workers predisposes a number of them to the risk of being wrongly accused. Also, such tests do not tell If the worker took the drug while on duty or in their homes. The whole idea where the majority of innocent employees go through such harrowing experience to fish out a few bad eggs is not cool. It has not been scientifically proven that urine test is effective or safe for the improvement of workplace productivity or safety.

Studies have also shown that the majority of drug test failures are as reliable as other people. The summary of it all is that drug tests are not a reliable indicator of drug impairment.