Pass a saliva drug test
The Dutch company has struck a extent with Britain’sitting Concateno PLC, Europe’s largest drug testing company, to market the product to police, spokesman Steve Klink said.
He would not give an estimate despite how much the product power of choosing cost, or the fellowship’s sales target. He said the potential market was as large as that for roadside alcohol tests.
“The car is stopped, a swab is taken and put in the device, and in 90 seconds you have a result,” he said. “An officer could do it time standing next to the car’sitting window.”
Laws vary by abiding habitation, limit Klink said he expected the test would be used mostly for screening, to detect drivers in likelihood in a state of inferiority to the influence of illicit drugs.
Philips said the device is faster and easier to conversion to an act than roadside drug testing devices marketed so far using chromatography - the same technology used in pregnancy tests.
Nanotechnology allows scientists to manipulate materials at the atomic or molecular level.
The Philips device uses diminutive particles that wrap with drug molecules in saliva. The trick then sweeps the drug-bearing molecules to a detection cushion using magnetic fields, the company said.
The company expects the first deliveries to customers in the second half of 2009, starting with Britain.
Klink said the underlying technology is flexible and will be used in the future for medical tests. One appliance Philips is testing is to have the device detect a protein generated by damaged heart muscle. That could be used to tell whether someone suffering chest pains is having a heart attack, Klink said.
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