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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 As a result, Wu said, "urine detection sites started taking away any source of water, putting bluing agents in the toilet bowls themselves, so methods [of cheating] have gotten more sophisticated."
The researchers cited some examples of the quick fixes that can be found on more than 1,000 Web sites, products such as "Ready Clean Drug Detox Drink" and "Urine Luck." There are even advertisements for synthetic bottled urine.
In addition, they said, Internet sites sell a fairly inexpensive variety of fluids or pills to flush out the system. And then there are products, with names like Stealth, that can be added to the urine sample after it is collected.
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But for each measure, there's often a countermeasure, according to lead author Amitava Dasgupta, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School, who outlines a host of them in his presentation.
The toxicology arsenal ranges from recipes for detecting nitrites in urine to spot color tests and test strips that show doctored urine.
Dasgupta said, in a prepared statement, that only 2 percent of folks try cheating on drug tests. But, he added "There are always a few bad apples, and if you don't catch them,
they can spoil a workplace."
"It's a minority that succeed, but it's certainly not zero," Wu added. "We don't know how many are successful, because if we knew that, they wouldn't be successful."
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