Panel Customization

STERLING offers flexibility in test panel design that is unmatched by its competitors. We provide expert consultation while evaluating your testing requirements and aligning a solution with them. When a test panel is built to include only the test panels and methods you need, your costs are optimized.

Custom Testing Options

STERLING's technology was created with flexibility and customization in mind. We can accommodate virtually any test panel you require including testing method, choice of drug classifications, modification of THC and Opiate cut-off levels, test reporting methods, and costing options. For example:

1. Laboratory Testing Methodologies:
   1. Initial screen method immunoassay
   2. Confirmation method - GC/MS (Ethanol by GC)
   
   
2. Confirmation Testing:
   1. Automatic & included in panel price - one fee all-inclusive
   2. Automatic & separate fee - fee only charged when screen result is positive
   3. By request ONLY
   
   
3. Test Panel Options:
   1. Initial test by immunoassay, screened positives verified by repeat immunoassay*
   2. Initial test by immunoassay, screened positives confirmed by GC/MS (forensic result)
   
   
4. Cut-off Levels/Quantitation:
   1. THC50 or 20 ng/mL available, opiates at 300 or 2000 ng/mL
   2. All GC/MS confirmed positives include quantitation

Specialty Panels

Numerous in-house specialty panels are also available, such as for LSD, Cotinine (nicotine), Psilocybin (Hallucinogenic mushrooms) testing, and others. We partner with speciality laboratories if the need arises for a very rare test.

* Result considered presumptive, monitoring where no punitive action taken