Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
What PinPoint does for the Crime Lab
PinPoint Testing LLC, co-owned by state Crime Laboratory Assistant Director Cindy Moran, has done $150,000 in direct and indirect business with the state agency since 2017, providing both one-time services and making single-use "ToxBox" kits that the Crime Lab uses day-to-day. The equipment pictured is not the same used by the Crime Lab.
TESTING INSTRUMENTS
PinPoint has also formatted some of the lab's drug-testing instruments (such as this one, an Agilent 1200), which screen the filled well plates and produce a reading for technicians. The lab uses different testing methods for different purposes – ranging from death investigations to law enforcement evidence. PinPoint's job was to develop those methods and verify that they work.
WELL PLATES
ToxBox kits include well plates (such as this one), which come pre-filled with known amounts of specific drugs that the toxicology lab looks for in evidence samples, such as blood or urine. Because technicians know how much of a drug is in a standard, they can reliably gauge the drug's presence in a sample.