What does 49 CFR 40.203 (What problems cause a drug test to be cancelled unless they are corrected?) require?

According to 49 CFR 40.203, when you (as the Medical Review Officer, or MRO) discover a "correctable flaw" during your review of the Federal Drug Testing Custody and Control Form (CCF), you must cancel the test unless that flaw is successfully corrected.

Specifically, you must attempt to correct the following flaws:

1. The employee's signature is omitted from the certification statement (unless the employee's failure or refusal to sign is noted on the "Remarks" line of the CCF).

2. The certifying scientist's signature is omitted on Copy 1 of the CCF for a positive, adulterated, substituted, or invalid test result.

3. The collector uses a non-Federal form or an expired CCF for the test (which can be corrected using the procedure in § 40.205(b)(2), provided the collection and testing were done properly at an HHS-certified laboratory).

Additionally, if a laboratory discovers that the collector's signature is omitted on the certification statement of the CCF and is unsuccessful in its attempt to correct it, the laboratory will report the specimen as "Rejected for Testing," which also results in a cancelled test.