APPARATUS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD FOR SAMPLING AND ANALYZING DRUGS AND RESPECTIVE METABOLITES IN BREATH AIR, PARTICULARLY SUITABLE FOR PERFORMING ROAD DRUG TESTS
A portable apparatus to sample and analyze volatile organic compounds in breath air, includes:a box internally divided in two internal sections, each housing a sample collecting tube or filter in turn containing a stationary phase suitable for retaining determined analytes, as drugs and/or respective metabolites, having specific chemical physical properties, contained in breath aira pre-accumulation chamber for receiving breath air from the outside through a breath entrance connection and for feeding the received breath air to the sample collecting filters housed in the two sections, with these two sample collecting filters being connected in parallel to the chamber anda tool application kit for removing the two sample collecting filters from the respective sections in the box of the apparatus, in a way that avoids any contamination thereof, and for extracting the analytes that are retained by the stationary phase on the same two sample collecting filters.
