Intelligent Fingerprinting; a new, rapid and non-invasive technology for detecting Drugs of Abuse

智能指纹有限公司开发了一项技术，可以在人体指纹中检测人体内存在的代谢物。这反过来又允许以非常小的数量(半定量)检测到一个人可能食用的许多物质。这项提议旨在证明在包括刑事司法和工作场所测试在内的各种情况下使用检测滥用药物(DOA)的技术是可行的。要做到这一点，该项目必须找到一种方法，通过首先清洁指尖，并使用一种称为离子导入的方法来刺激汗液的产生，从而确定指尖不会以任何方式受到污染。这是一种成熟的汗液产生方法，多年来一直用于检测人体囊性纤维化；然而，将其改装并用于IFP指纹测试会带来许多技术和商业风险。

Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited have developed a technology that allows metabolitespresent in the human body to be detected in human fingerprints. This in turn allows manysubstances that a person may have consumed to be detected (semi-quantitatively) in verysmall quantities. This proposal is aimed at proving the technology feasible for use indetecting drugs of abuse (DoA) in a variety of circumstances including criminal justice andwork place testing. To allow this to happen the project must develop a way to establish thatfingertips are not contaminated in any way by first cleaning them and stimulating theproduction of sweat by using a method known as iontophorisis. This is an established methodof producing sweat that been used for testing for Cystic Fibrosis in people for many years;however, to adapt and use it for the IFP fingerprint test carries with it many technical andcommercial risks.