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Specifications
- Control Sets: DRI Ethyl Alcohol Control Set
- Description: DRI Ethyl Alcohol Drugs of Abuse Assays
- Detectable Analytes: Alcohol
- DoA Calibrators: DRI Ethyl Alcohol Calibrators
- Quantity: 3 x 18 mL
- Storage Requirements: 2°to8°C
Intended Use
The DRI® Ethyl Alcohol Assay is intended for the quantitative determination of alcohol in human urine, serum or plasma.
Summary and Explanation of the Test
In addition to beverages, ethyl alcohol (ethanol or alcohol) can also be found in high concentrations in a variety of products such as mouthwashes, colognes, candies and medicinal preparations. When alcohol is ingested, it will permeate all tissues of the body within one hour. About 95% of the alcohol is metabolized in the liver, and the remainder is excreted unchanged.
Alcohol intoxication can lead to birth defects (eg, fetal alcohol syndrome), loss of alertness, stupor, coma and death. Determination of ethyl alcohol concentration is commonly used for measuring legal impairment, investigating forensic evidence, diagnosing and/or treating alcohol dependency, as well as detecting alcohol poisoning.
Gas chromatography techniques and several enzymatic methods are available for determination of ethyl alcohol. These techniques either require specimen pretreatment or require incubation periods ranging from 10 to 60 minutes.
DRI Ethyl Alcohol Assay is a liquid, ready-to-use, kinetic method based on the high specificity of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) for ethyl alcohol. In the presence of ADH and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), ethyl alcohol is readily oxidized to acetaldehyde and NADH. The enzymatic reaction can be monitored spectrophotometrically at 340 nm.
