Specimen Requirements

1. Place blue dye into toilet bowl.

2. Instruct patient to collect a urine specimen, and give it to the appropriate person prior to flushing toilet or washing hands.

3. Submit 50 mL (minimum volume:  30 mL) from a random urine collection using Drug Screen Kit. No preservative.

4. Split specimen if required, and affix chain-of-custody tape across top of urine container. No STATS are accepted for this procedure. No specimen substitutions.

5. Place specimen and completed chain-of-custody form in a sealed bag.

6. Send specimen at ambient temperature.

7. For chain-of-custody information, see #Chain-of-Custody Processing “Chain-of-Custody Processing.”
Note:  Follow instructions in “Observed or Unobserved Urine Collection” in “C.O.C. (Chain-of-Custody) Collection Procedure” in “Special Instructions.”