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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 313-314, 2000
© 2000 Medical Council on Alcoholism

Letter to the Editors

DETERMINATION OF ETHYL GLUCURONIDE IN HAIR SAMPLES

ANDREAS ALT*, INES JANDA, STEPHAN SEIDL1 and FRIEDRICH-MARTIN WURST2

Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Ulm,
1 Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Erlangen and
2 Department of Psychiatry II, University of Ulm, Germany

Received 11 October 1999; first review notified 21 December 1999; accepted 5 January 2000

Ethyl glucuronide (EtG) is a non-volatile, water-soluble, stable-upon-storage, direct metabolite of ethanol and can be detected in body fluids and tissues (and also in post-mortem material) for an extended time period after the complete elimination of alcohol from the body (Alt et al., 1997Go; Schmitt et al., 1997Go; Seidl et al., 1998Go; Wurst et al., 1999aGo,bGo). The aim of the present Letter is to emphasize . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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