§ 40.93 What criteria do laboratories use to establish that a specimen is dilute or substituted?
Wording in the annual edition revised as of Oct. 1, 2001, superseded by the 2005 annual edition.
(a) As a laboratory you must consider the primary specimen to be dilute if the creatinine concentration is less than 20 mg/dL and the specific gravity is less than 1.003, unless the criteria for a substituted specimen are met.
(b) As a laboratory you must consider the primary specimen to be substituted if the creatinine concentration is less than or equal to 5 mg/dL and the specific gravity is less than or equal to 1.001 or greater than or equal to 1.020.
Amendment history
5 distinct wordings on file since Oct. 1, 1996- [88 FR 27643, May 2, 2023]
- [69 FR 64867, Nov. 9, 2004]
- [69 FR 64867, Nov. 9, 2004]
- Oct. 1, 1996 → Oct. 1, 2001annual editions 1996–2000
A new entry appears whenever the regulatory words change between government snapshots. Day-precise from the eCFR (2017 onward); before that, one snapshot per annual CFR edition (revised as of October 1). Bracketed citations are the Federal Register history printed with the section.