This topic came up on the mailbase a few weeks ago. There is a rapid test
for cotinine called "NicQuick" market by a U.S. company called DIPRO
Diagnostic Products, Inc. (http://www.dipro.com).
Salvador F. Sena, Ph.D., DABCC
Associate Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry
Danbury Hospital
Danbury, CT 06810 USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Collinson [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 12:57 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Test for smoking?
>
> In message <[log in to unmask]>, ghlester
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >Colleagues,
> >
> >I have a vague memory that this topic has been discussed on mailbase
> >before. If so, apologies.
> >
> >A colleague doing a research project is looking for a simple, ideally
> >point-of-care, test for compliance with abstinence from smoking. Is
> anyone
> >aware of such a test on breath or urine?
> >
> >I am aware of urine cotinine but is there a "dip-stick"?
> >
> >
> >Geoff Lester
> >Clinical Biochemistry
> >Frenchay Hospital
> >Bristol UK.
>
> There are urinary tests for cotinine
>
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> Paul Collinson
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