Presenters/Facilitators: Dr Abdul Aziz Aldalgan PhD & Dr. Huda Hassan PhD

Date: 2nd Dec 2025 | Time: 2:30 - 4:30 PM

Cost: 200

Target Audience: forensic toxicologists; toxicologists; forensic scientists; students attending forensic science programs

Prerequisites: Awareness of forensic toxicology

Maximum Participants: 30

Description:

In order to obtain the most accurate lab results, each aspect of the lab’s operations must be optimized to maintain reliability.

Workplace drug testing (WDT) is limited by many challenges, such as:

- Sample integrity

- Chain of custody

- Urine adulteration

- Stability and improper storage of samples

- Lack of training and competency testing

- Not following the policy and procedure

- Not performing the regular equipment maintenance

- Instrument not calibrated

- Lack of effective quality control program and Quality management system

- Interference: Several pharmacological factors used daily, are known to interfere with routine laboratory tests by pharmaco-toxicological and chemical reactions.

- Analytical method validation not done or not completed.

- New psychoactive substances (NPS)

In this workshop these challenges, several caseworks and different scenarios will be shared and discussed with the audience. Effective sample preparation methodologies of urine samples and the effective ways to enhance laboratory performance will also be discussed.