STOP PRESS!!!The United States Government Accountability Office...

STOP PRESS!!!

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday released the results of an undercover operation to test the effectiveness of the US Department of Transport's (urine-based) drug testing program. The report is fascinating (just the lengths the agents went to in auditing the system - bogus transport companies, false licences etc - is interesting).

BOTTOM LINE - the testing program was found to be near useless and the limitations of urine-based systems were graphically portrayed.

To have this sort of negative critique of urine testing in one of the US's biggest federal agencies - at a time when there is already a widespread desire to migrate to saliva systems (but no FDA-approved device to facilitate such a move for many agencies) and when HGR is just about to get FDA approval (and to the only company with it for quite some time).

HOW BEAUTIFUL IS THAT?

This is the core market for HGR (ie. workplace testing) and transport is one of the most important sectors

The report is entitled:

DRUG TESTING
Undercover Tests Reveal Significant Vulnerabilities in DOT’s Drug Testing Program

Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives

The link is:

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08225t.pdf