NicAlert - Instant Urine Nicotine Cotinine Tobacco Smoking Test + Second Hand Smoke (1)(Multiple Quantities)

NicAlert is a simple, cost-effective test to determine smoking status of a person. It is an easy-to-read test strip that can be used with a a urine sample (saliva version is also available). NicAlert can help: health care professionals to test for their patient's exposure to tobacco smoke teachers and high school coaches to test high school athletes for smoking or other tobacco product use, parents to test their children; to verify smoking status for insurance applications; to test subjects in tobacco research studies. NicAlert is intended for in vitro diagnostic professional use for the semi-quantitative determination of cotinine in urine for the purpose of determining if an individual has been exposed to tobacco products such as cigarettes, pipes, or chewing tobacco within the past 48 hours. The cutoff concentration for the NicAlert test is 100 ng/mL. Second hand smoke exposure (environmental tobacco smoke) may cause a positive result in a non-user of tobacco products. The NicAlert Positive and Negative Controls are intended for in vitro diagnostic use for the quality control of the NicAlert test. PRINCIPLE OF THE TEST NicAlert is an immunochromatographic assay that uses monoclonal antibody-coated gold particles and a series of avidity traps that allow quantification. It employs patented technologies. The sample collection end of the strip contains gold particles coated with monoclonal antibodies to cotinine, a relatively long-lived metabolite of nicotine. The distance the gold migrates on the strip is shown by a clear color change and provides an accurate measure of the amount of cotinine in the sample.