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Table 7 Comparison of colorimetric methods for BAC determination

From: Smartphone based colorimetric point-of-care sensor for abused drugs: case of baclofen determination in urine

Chromogen

Linearity (mmol L−1)

Accuracy (Recovery%)

Precision (RSD%)

Sample

Determination method

Refs

NQS

0.02–0.21

98.65

7.38

urine

Smartphone based POCT

This work

Ninhydrin

1.87–6.55

Not considered in details

Pharmaceutical dosage form

Conventional spectrophotometry

[16]

4-chloro-7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole

0.02–0.33

Not evaluated

Pharmaceutical dosage form

Conventional spectrophotometry

[14]

Iron (III)/ potassium hexacyano ferrate

0.05–23.4

Not evaluated

0.71

Pharmaceutical dosage form

Flow injection spectrophotometry

[17]

Vanillin

Eosin Acetylacetone/

formaldehyde

0.05–0.16

0.02–0.09

0.02–0.12

100.29

101.00

99.49

1.02

1.22

0.70

Pharmaceutical dosage form

Conventional spectrophotometry

[18]