Concateno, Europe’s most experienced drug and alcohol testing company, has called for national standard procedures for testing for parental substance misuse in child protection casework, working in partnership with the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC). It is estimated that up to 1.3 million children in the UK are affected by parental alcohol misuse, which means that one in 11 children live in...
Figures released to coincide with the Understanding and Implementing the new Child Protection Guidelines conference today Concateno, Europe’s most experienced drug and alcohol testing provider, has issued its 2010 child protection drug and alcohol testing statistics, regarding parental substance misuse. The figures show that Concateno analysed 11,500 samples across the UK for child protection...
Toxicologists from Concateno, Europe’s most experienced drug and alcohol testing company, presented a method for detecting cathinone, a stimulant more commonly known as ‘khat’, at The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT) annual symposium held in Bonn last week. “To our knowledge this is the first report of cathinone analysis in oral fluid” said Peter Akrill, who co-authored...
Prestigious business award presented by Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire Concateno, Europe’s leading drug and alcohol test provider, has been presented with the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of its outstanding innovation and commercial performance. The event, which took place at Concateno’s head office in Abingdon on July 7, was attended by more than 100 people, including...
Programme demonstrates massive gap between tests conducted for drink driving and those used to determine drug driving ITV Wales called on Concateno, Europe’s most experienced provider of drug and alcohol testing solutions, to help raise awareness of the dangers of drug driving in a recent documentary produced for S4C’s current affairs series Y Byd ar Bedwar (The World on Four). Aired on...