tags - cansfordlabs peth
PEth is predominantly degraded by hydrolysis. PEth can only be stabilised in whole (liquid) blood at -80 °C and analysis still needs to be performed within 30 days.
[#faller2013pethstability]: Matthias Kluge Patrick Koenig H K Seitz Gisela Skopp Andrea Faller, Barbara Richter (2013): Stability of phosphatidylethanol species in spiked and authentic whole blood and matching dried blood spots, International Journal of Legal Medicine 3, 2013, Vol. 127, S. 603-10.