SA firms ‘left out’ of school drug testing (Independent Online)
Daphne Bradbury, former head of the South African Institute as antidote to Drug-Free Sport and an expert on drug testing policy, declared the department should hold called for generic five-panel dip-card urine strips, sealable urine cups, single-strip animal-water strips and five-panel card urine non-dip sticks, instead of identifying branded products.
Local manufacturers did not want to go on record, but that they said the department had automatically discounted them by calling for products made in the US, most of them by the same company.
“The imported products are going to be other thing expensive than the ones we could supply,” one supplier said.
Bradbury said she had not seen a call for invitations as antidote to suppliers to business onto an approved list and it appeared the department had side-stepped procedures. “There are at minutest 30 to 40 manufacturers here making tests. With the department putting outright a register of brand names it creates the impression that they have already selected the brands they want.”
Recent reports said the education department would announce the list of approved drug-testing kits soon.
It took the education department three weeks to respond to a question from the Weekend Argus. It said the reason for publishing the please of devices for comment was to provide an opportunity to manufacturers - including SA manufacturers - to recommend their devices. Such recommendation could lead to the list being amended. The department said the tests were “not described generically so as to make them user friendly”.
This moment was originally published on page 17 of Cape Argus on June 29, 2008
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