Detection of the ethanol consumption markers ethyl glucuronide and ethyl sulfate in urine samples from inmates of two German prisons

Abstract

The number of participants in this study was rather high, so that the results represent a good cross section, at least for Offenburg, the jail with the higher number of positive samples.

Comprehensive investigation of persistent and mobile chemicals and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in urine of flemish adolescents using a suspect screening approach

“…It is used in industrial and consumer products and is also well-known as a direct ethanol metabolite (Andrés-Costa et al, 2016;Wurst et al, 2006). Since EtS can be used as a biomarker for recent alcohol consumption of people, urine monitoring of EtS has been conducted for the general population, patients and also in postmortem investigations (Alsayed et al, 2022;Graham et al, 2017;Helander and Beck, 2004;Thierauf-Emberger et al, 2016;Wurst et al, 2006). Among study participants with EtS in urine samples, 30% responded to the questionnaire from FLEHS IV reference biomonitoring study that they occasionally drink alcohol.…”

Assessing prescription drug abuse using functional principal component analysis (FPCA) of wastewater data

“…WBE is based on the chemical analysis of specific drug metabolites in wastewater, allowing for estimation of population drug use . WBE has been used for illicit drugs, licit drugs and more recently with prescription drugs . The agreement between sales of prescription drugs and the levels found in wastewater indicate the potential use of wastewater analysis in prescription drug epidemiology …”