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Ninth Report - Spiking

Home Affairs Committee HC 967 Published 26 April 2022
Report Status
Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations
22 items (11 recs)
Government Response
AI assessment · 19 of 22 classified
Accepted 5
Accepted in Part 2
Acknowledged 3
Deferred 7
Not Addressed 1
Rejected 1
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Recommendations

1 result
18 Not Addressed
Para 89

Call for Home Office to require warnings and expedite spiking testing review

Recommendation
The Home Office should require commercially available drug-testing products to carry warnings about their limitations; expedite its planned scientific review of the relative merits of the various spiking testing pilots being run by the police, universities and hospitals and report … Read more
Government Response Summary
The government states there is no single effective test kit and urges victims to contact police for forensic analysis. It does not commit to requiring warnings on commercial products, expediting the review to a 3-month deadline, or supporting wider adoption after the review.
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