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Psychemedics Science - Marketing Deception
BlogNov 1, 2025

The Lab, the Lie, and the Law: Civil-Rights Filing Alleges NYPD’s 30-Year Use of Unapproved Hair Tests

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE When Science Becomes Policy Without Oversight: Formal Investigatory Referral Exposes Decades of Unlawful Hair-Testing by NYPD and Psychemedics Corporation   New...

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Psychemedics Science - Marketing Deception
BlogOct 31, 2025

When Marketing Masquerades as Science: A Legal Analysis of Psychemedics’ 2019 BioSpace Statement

Executive Summary   This analysis exposes how Psychemedics Corporation transformed unvalidated science into accepted governmental policy through decades of marketing misrepresentation and regulatory silence....

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Call for Participants
BlogOct 30, 2025

The Sanders Firm, P.C. Investigates Decades of Unlawful NYPD Drug-Testing Practices Involving Psychemedics Corporation

PUBLIC NOTICE AND CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS   New York, NY — October 30, 2025 — New York Civil-rights attorney Eric Sanders of The Sanders Firm, P.C....

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Hair Testing Litigation Center
BlogOct 25, 2025

Hair Testing Litigation Center

Breaking the Silence: Exposing an Unlawful Testing Regime For more than three decades, public agencies and private employers have relied on hair drug testing...

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EIA Test
BlogOct 25, 2025

How to Challenge an Employment Decision Based on Unapproved Hair Drug Testing (RIAH, EIA, or Similar)

I. Introduction: What’s at Stake For nearly three decades, hair drug testing has quietly operated as a shadow policy tool across public and private...

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EIA Test
BlogOct 25, 2025

When Science Becomes Policy Without Oversight — and People Pay the Price

I. Introduction: The Power of Silence Public policy is not made only in hearings, courtrooms, or legislative chambers. It is also made in the...

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How FDA Inaction Enabled Decades of Unlawful Hair Testing
BlogOct 25, 2025

How FDA Inaction Enabled Decades of Unlawful Hair Testing

For more than three decades, both public agencies and private employers have relied on hair drug tests the federal government never actually authorized. These...

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Citizen Petition
BlogOct 25, 2025

What an FDA Citizen Petition Really Means — and Why Job Applicants and Employees Should Care

For years, both public agencies and private companies have quietly relied on drug testing methods the federal government never actually authorized. These unapproved practices...

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Medical Device Clearance - Scientific Validity
BlogOct 24, 2025

Former NYPD Officer Files Citizen Petition Urging FDA Crackdown on Unlawful Hair Testing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Petition challenges decades-long misuse of Psychemedics Corporation’s unvalidated drug testing on law enforcement officers and applicants, exposing regulatory gaps, racial disparities,...

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