PEth Testing False Positives

Experts assert that there is no such thing as a false positive DBS PEth test (Dry Blood Spot Phosphatidylethanol). PEth is a biomarker determining alcohol consumption and false positives have caused loss of life, careers, and custody battles. The PEth test is non-FDA approved blood test. The researcher hypothesized that a false positive was possible. The researcher abstained from alcohol for 30 days, then donated five blood samples, on the same day, at a USDTL lab. Each sample submitted provided a different name and number to avoid bias at the lab, but confirmation that all blood samples were from the same person as identified by the methodology of gathering the sample. Sample 1 was a whole blood PEth (WB) sample. Sample 2-5 were Dry Blood Spot PEth (DBS). Samples 1-3 that indicated there was no alcohol consumption, however, tests 4 and 5 indicated positive tests, associated with exessive alcohol consumption. In that all samples came from the same human on the same day within a five-hour period, and three of the five samples confirm no alcohol consumption, this indicates false positives do exist. The significance of this research is that people are unjustly losing their careers, child custody, and their lives if removed from a donor list, because of a false assertion of alcohol consumption.