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Posted on 09/13/2004 9:34:58 AM PDT by presidio9
Getting rich making fake pee.
What a country!
Wifey just this weekend bought some "Flexitol" skin balm for dry heels....I read the ingredients and had the pleasure of advising her that what she was rubbing into her wheels was 25% pee......I assume that's what Urea is!
Great news for working druggies everywhere...
This really PISSES me off.
Yeah, I'll fill the cup, but you'll have to turn your head...
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Will Albert Pujols now start buying this stuff, instead of peeing on his hands?
Let's celebrate thier good fortune by drinking a non-alcohol beer!!!
We'll all eat tofu snacks!!!
1/2 oz Cointreau
1 oz Vodka
Juice of 1/2 Limes
1 splash Cranberry Juice
stir
Actually, among MLB players, the target market for fake urine is more likely to be Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, and Sammy Sosa.
Shows you what I know. I never would have guessed that real urine was in such short supply...
So what does that make Picard?
If different body chemistry guarantees that no two people's urine is exactly alike, how is synthetic urine a valid reference for anyone?
Is this company owned by VIACOM? or VIA-CON?
It's not but standardized urine is. I used to work in a lab that did drug testing for law enforcement. You need a surprising amount just to calibrate equipment. Lab people have hoping for fake urine for a long time.
As for the illegal usages, well, it's a problem but one that can probably be solved pretty easily. The addition of an inert chemical "marker" would do it. Sort of like adding a VIN number. Tests and equipment would have to detect the marker but that's not an insurmountable barrier.
As someone who has cleaned up and autoclaved her share "pee", I applaud anything to spare future lab people the horror.
Typical wimpy Frog who has no business commanding a starship.
To be serious ...
"...different body chemistry guarantees that no two people's urine is exactly alike, an irritation for researchers who rely on consistency."
What does THAT tell you about the reliability of urine tests now being used?
What does that tell you what the reliability of future test will be if they use synthetic (unvarying) urine as their research base? The results on REAL people will be even more unreliable.
I remember a company that was producing a synthetic baby poop for use in the testing of diapers. The objects was to have a standard reproducible poop that would not be hazardous to the diaper testers.
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