Evaluation of simplified workflow for hair matrix extraction

Hair analysis is growing in popularity due to the non-invasive nature of the sample collection. Although not used as routinely as other matrices such as blood or urine it does have advantages in that the matrix can indicate prolonged drug exposure. This can provide valuable information with respect to therapeutic drug regimens or in abused drug abstinence cases. As a result hair analysis can be viewed as a complementary
technique to traditional blood and urine analysis. Sample preparation for hair analysis is often lengthy involving multiple manual labor steps from cutting, washing, homogenization/pulverization, digestion, sample extraction and analysis. This poster aims to demonstrate a streamlined sample preparation workflow for hair analysis. 

Literature number: P194.V.2