Subpart F - Federal drug testing custody and control form

Mandatory guidelines for federal workplace drug testing programs

Section 6.1 What form is used for collecting a specimen?

An OMB-approved Federal CCF must be used to document the collection of each urine specimen at the collection site.

Section 6.2 What happens if the correct Federal CCF is not available or is not used?

(a) When the collector either by mistake or as the only means to document a collection under difficult circumstances (e.g., post-accident test with insufficient time to obtain the correct CCF) uses a non-Federal form or an expired Federal CCF for a Federal agency specimen collection, the use of the incorrect form is not, by itself, a reason for the laboratory or IITF to automatically reject the specimen for testing or for the MRO to cancel the test.

(b) If the collector realizes that an incorrect form was used before the specimen bottles are packaged for transit to the laboratory or IITF, the collector must show on the form that it is a Federal agency specimen collection and give the reason why an incorrect form was used. Based on the information provided by the collector, the laboratory or IITF must handle and test the specimen as a Federal agency specimen.

(c) If the laboratory, IITF, or MRO discovers that an incorrect form was used by the collector, the laboratory, IITF, or MRO must obtain a memorandum for the record from the collector stating the reason why the correct Federal CCF was not used to collect the Federal agency specimen. If after 5 business days a memorandum for the record cannot be obtained, the laboratory or IITF reports a rejected for testing result and the MRO cancels the test.