title: European guidelines for workplace drug testing in urine.
abstract: These European Guidelines for Workplace Drug Testing in Urine have been prepared and updated by the European Workplace Drug Testing Society (EWDTS). The first version of these urine guidelines was published in 2002. Since then, the guidelines have been followed by many laboratories in different European countries and their role has been essential particularly in countries lacking legislation for workplace drug testing. In 2014, the EWDTS started a guidelines updating project and published a new version of the urine guidelines in 2015. Here we represent this updated version of the urine guidelines. The European Guidelines are designed to establish best practice procedures whilst allowing individual countries to operate within the requirements of national customs and legislation. The EWDTS recommends that all European laboratories that undertake legally defensible workplace drug testing should use these guidelines as a template for accreditation. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors.affiliation: VITA Laboratory, VITA Healthcare Services Ltd, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Sanna
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6637-5644
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Taskinen
authors.affiliation: Karolinska Institutet, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Olof
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.affiliation: Department Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, Hospital Pharmacy, MaastadLab, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Tessa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bosch
authors.affiliation: Greiner Bio-One GmbH, Kremsmünster, Austria.
authors.forename: Michaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brcak
authors.affiliation: AgriYork 400 Limited, Pocklington, York, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Duncan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Carmichael
authors.affiliation: F- Institute of Public Health, Section of Legal Medicine, Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fucci
authors.affiliation: Alere Toxicology Plc, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: George
authors.affiliation: Randox Testing Services, Crumlin, Co. Antrim, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piper
authors.affiliation: Centro Regionale Antidoping, Centro Regionale Antidoping e di Tossicologia "A. Bertinaria", Torino, Italy.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salomone
authors.affiliation: ELDC BV / BeterVee BV, Kerkrade, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schielen
authors.affiliation: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Steinmeyer
authors.affiliation: Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Bühlstr. 20, 3012, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weinmann
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D013287:Illicit Drugs / Q000652:urine*; D007753:Laboratories / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011786:Quality Control; D012955:Societies, Medical; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods*; D016482:Urinalysis / Q000379:methods*; D054928:Validation Studies as Topic; D017132:Workplace / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence
chemical_list: D013287:Illicit Drugs
keywords: EWDTS; guidelines; urine; workplace drugtesting