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guidance for non-criminal drug and alcohol testing laboratories

SACTL develops and publishes best-practice guidance to support consistency and quality in non-criminal drug and alcohol testing. All documents are peer-reviewed by committee members and made freely available to the wider toxicology community. These publications are intended to assist laboratories in interpreting ISO/IEC 17025, Lab 51, and related requirements, and to promote confidence in the integrity of testing practices.

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SACTL Publications

Guidelines for the Assessment of Bias and Precision in Immunoassay (v1)

This document sets out standardized guidelines for UK toxicology laboratories on how to assess, monitor, and report the bias, precision, and overall performance of immunoassay drug screening tests to ensure consistency, transparency, and scientific validity in presumptive testing for drugs of abuse.

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