EtG

Ethyl glucuronide (ETG) is a non-oxidative metabolite of ethanol. It is formed by the detoxifying pathway of alcohol elimination via conjugation with activated glucuronic acid (uridine-5’-diphospho-β-glucuronic acid). This is a minor pathway of alcohol metabolism and is reported to represent about 0.5 % of total ethanol elimination. However, ETG can be detected in body fluids for an extended time period after the complete elimination of alcohol from the body. It has also been detected in many post-mortem biological matrices using a variety of analytical techniques.

Oral fluid (OF) testing has gained acceptance over the past decades as an alternative biological matrix for detecting drugs in forensic and clinical settings. OF testing offers simple, rapid, non-invasive, observed specimen collection, making sample adulteration more difficult and eliminating the need for specialised bathroom collection facilities or same-sex collectors, as may be the case with urine. Other advantages include potential for on-site collection and screening, lower biohazard risk during collection (compared with collection of blood) and ease of multiple sample collections

Product Number: ETG10593