SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — The Florida Department of Law Enforcement stood by its lab testing after an Oviedo police officer's field test kit mistook drywall dust for cocaine, which led to a man's arrest ...

In 1973, L.J. Scott, Jr., was a chemist at the recently created Drug Enforcement Agency, hard at work on a critical breakthrough: a chemical mixture that could identify the presence of cocaine. The ...

Even the manufacturer of these field test kits warns law enforcement to get results confirmed by a real lab. Our investigation found at least 100 times Georgia officers ignored that advice and made ...

The Drug Enforcement Agency has requested input from companies who may be able to provide field test kits that can differentiate hemp from marijuana. In a notice posted to the federal business ...

This is the vitamin that Doraville police say their field drug test kit showed positive for Ecstacy. A later GBI Crime Lab report ruled there was no controlled substance and the drug trafficking ...

STAFFORD, Texas, Oct. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- DetectaChem, the global leader in handheld drug and explosive detection technology, in response to overwhelming industry demand, has released the CBD/THC ...

Tens of thousands of people are wrongfully arrested for crimes based on a false positive result from a field drug test each year, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of ...

The manufacturer of the cocaine field test that produced conflicting results in a controversial Aspen drug arrest says the test is 100 percent accurate, if used properly. “We perform our own tests ...

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office will no longer use cocaine field testing kits after learning they return false positives for some common over-the-counter medications. In a memo Wednesday, all ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Feb. 26, 2016) -- An infantry unit goes into an area recently held by insurgents and finds evidence of a biological agent laboratory. Chemical biological experts arrive ...