Reagent System: Sodium Nitroprusside
An affordable, reliable, convenient, two-step residue swab for the detection of methamphetamine residue.
A Note to Home Inspectors:
Generally, our tests are used to determine if a substance encountered in the field by a law enforcement office is indeed methamphetamine and not some other innocuous substance. Basically, they are used as a quick and easy test to presumptively identify a substance as a particular drug without the use of a GCMS unit or more expensive, less portable lab equipment. It's a methamphetmine specific test, so it generally doesn't function well for any other application. What the test will do is this: it will indicate if there is methampheatmine (the completed product itself) on the specific area you are testing. Unfortunately, the test is incapable of telling you most thngs that home inspector need to know, such as:
- has meth ever been used in the house
- has meth ever been sold in the house
- has meth ever been manufactured / cooked in the house
- have the walls, floors and ceilings been exposed to -or- are they contaminated with any kind of chemical as a result of the manufacturing process
The next level of difficulty with our tests is related the the industry standards of the minimum acceptable levels of methamphetamine (or any of it's contaminates) These levels are measured in parts per billion, and out tests are simply not designed for (nor are capable of) "hitting" on any amount of reactive substance (in this case, methamphetamine) found in quantities of less than 100 – 500 micrograms. Unfortunately, we've learned these lessons the hard way.
The third issue is that the contaminates left behind by the methamphetamine manufacturing / cooking process is generally not meth itself, but iodine and/or other chemical by products, and our test is simply not formulated to react with these substances.
Finally, to our knowledge, our products have not been tested, evaulated or in any way certified by either the NACHI and STAHI.
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