Biotage solutions for drugs of abuse

Biotage produces a wide range of sample preparation products for use in the area of forensic toxicology. During recent years Supported Liquid Extraction using ISOLUTE SLE+ columns and plates has become very popular for testing biological samples (urine, blood, hair, saliva) for drugs of abuse or other banned or toxic substances. 

ISOLUTE SLE+ has many advantages compared to other sample preparation techniques:

- Simplicity: 3 step process of load, wait, elute
- Fewer number of processing steps (conditioning, equilibration and wash steps removed)
- Lower solvent consumption
- Simple methodology to extract a variety of drugs of abuse with a single extraction product
- Clean extracts
- Excellent recoveries and RSDs across the required range
- Robust and reliable
- Fully automation compatible technique: paired with the Extrahera Automation System, column and plate methods may be performed without manual steps

A wide range of applications, optimized and validated protocols produced by Biotage, are available.