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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 283-285, 2000
© 2000 Medical Council on Alcoholism

ETHYL GLUCURONIDE IN HUMAN HAIR

GISELA SKOPP*, GEORG SCHMITT, LUCIA PÖTSCH1, PETER DRÖNNER, ROLF ADERJAN and RAINER MATTERN

Institute of Legal Medicine and Traffic Medicine, Voßstr. 2, 69115 Heidelberg and
1 Institute of Legal Medicine, Am Pulverturm 3, 55131 Mainz, Germany

Received 8 September 1999; first review notified 4 November 1999; accepted 1 December 1999

Ethyl glucuronide (EtG) is considered to be a promising candidate marker of alcohol consumption, but exhibits a short window of detection in blood or urine. Keratinized tissues are known to retain foreign substances and to provide a greater retrospective window of detection than body fluids. Therefore, post-mortem hair, skin swabs, and stratum corneum samples were collected from four subjects with a reported history of alcohol misuse and from seven subjects with a report of regular, socially accepted drinking behaviour, and were investigated for EtG. Additionally, certain specimens were collected from three children, who had not yet consumed any alcoholic beverages. EtG was detectable in most of the hair and stratum corneum samples as well as in perspiration stains from alcohol-consuming subjects. The results indicated that EtG might be formed locally in very small and highly variable amounts. The most important finding was that EtG cannot be expected to be generally detectable in keratinized tissues or perspiration stains from alcohol-drinking subjects, whereas a positive result is always associated with recent alcohol consumption.


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