TobacAlert - Quantitative Instant Urine Nicotine Test (Detects Second Hand Smoke)

Sales Price: $15.95

TobacAlert is the only at home instant test kit that gives quantitative determination of a person's level of exposure to tobacco product. This home test not only tests for use of cigarettes, pipes, chewing tobacco or cigar of the donor but can only be used to determine exposure to second hand smoking.

TobacAlert test is an easy to use, fast and accurate urine test strip. This nicotine home test kit measures levels of cotinine, a by product of the body’s breakdown of nicotine, the active ingredient found in tobacco products and tobacco smoke. Cotinine is a widely accepted indicator of recent tobacco product use and exposure, including second hand smoke exposure.

TobacAlert is for non-medical use and not intended to diagnose treat or prevent any disease or medical condition.

Primary Uses
Potential users include parents of young children, workers in a smoky workplace and other persons concerned about the harmful effects of second hand smoke.

Other potential users include smokers trying to quit, parents worried about whether a teenager may be smoking, coaches, insurance companies and counselors for quiting smoking.

How it works
The end of the TobacAlert strip contains gold particles coated with an antibody that selectively binds to cotinine. So please never put TobacAlert test strip in mouth. After the end of the strip is diluted with urine, the gold particles migrate through specialized "traps" in the strip. The more cotinine bound to a gold particle, the further it is able to migrate along the strip. The reddish bands seen on the developed strip correspond to gold particles caught in a particular trap. TobacAlert™ is extremely sensitive and can measure amounts as low as 10 nanograms of cotinine per milliliter of saliva (6 billionths of a gram in one fifth of a teaspoon).

LEVEL	COTININE CONCENTRATION (ng-ml)	INTERPRETATION
0	0 - 10	Non-user of tobacco products. Minimal or no nicotine exposure
1	10 - 30	Non-user of tobacco products. Low passive nicotine exposure
2	30 - 100	Non-user of tobacco products but higher passive nicotine exposure
3	100 - 200	User of tobacco products
4	200 - 500	User of tobacco products
5	500 - 1000	User of tobacco products
6	1000+	User of tobacco products

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