Morphine Strip Test

Genral Description

The opiates such as, heroin, morphine, and codeine are derived from the resin of the Opium poppy.Morphine and morphine glucuronide are not metabolized and can be found in the urine sample of person who has taken morphine. Heroin and codeine are quickly metabolized to morphine in the body therefore, the presence of morphine or morphine glucuronide in urine is an indication of use of either heroin, morphine or codeine. FD morphine test is a lateral flow one- Step, competitive immunoassay, this testis fast and easy to perform, does not need any instrumentation and result are read visually. The test system employs unique monoclonal antibodies to selectively identify morphine in urine samples with a high degree of sensitivity. the cut off concentration for morphine has been developed at 300 ng/ml, the concentration, as set by Institute on Drug Abuse, (NIDA), USA. FD Morphine test is designed for qualitative detection of morphine in human urine and hence, the screening purpose. the result of the test shall be re confirmed by more specific and accurate methods, such as gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) as suggested by NIDA. Clinical consideration and professional judgment should be applied to any drug of abuse test result, particularly when preliminary positive results are indicated. Note: since the sensitivity of the thin Layer chromatography (TLC) is less than the FD Morphine test, the former is not recommended as confirmatory test. however, Since TLC can distinguish between different morphine derivate, it can be used as complementary test.