ToxTime: Hair and Nail Testing - What's the Difference?

Please join us for another ToxTime presentation reupload with Joseph Jones, Ph.D., NRCC-TC, Chief Operating Officer at USDTL. We discussed the Differences between Hair and Fingernail Testing.

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00:00 Introduction
01:32 How are drugs incorporated into hair?
04:15 Can fingernails be used?
06:24 Anatomy of the fingernail
07:15 How are drugs incorporated into fingernail?
14:26 Are test results legally defensible?
16:38 What trends are we seeing at USDTL?
18:18 Case studies
23:50 Nail as an alternative specimen type
28:00 USDTL's mission
29:27 Outro

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