In an earlier email, the company’s sales and marketing representative Suzie Bury told AFP the founding foursome were still involved in the business and confirmed the nail polish concept was abandoned “because it failed consumer testing and it had too many limitations for us to be comfortable launching it”. In the future, we fully intend on incorporating other classes of drugs into the SipChip.” SipChip has achieved over 99% in the more than 12,000 devices tested. Like a pregnancy test, the results are interpreted by the presence of either two lines - meaning the beverage is safe - or one line, which means drugs have been detected.Ĭook continued, “The SipChip will detect drugs at levels at, or below, the dose a person would feel any physiological effects. It only requires a drop of beverage and within 30 seconds the results begin to develop,” Cook told us. The company’s products are available in four colors: Red, Yellow, Blue, and Green. A starter testing kit is available to buy through the Undercover Colors website, priced at 14. The company made headlines in 2016 when they announced they had raised 1.1 million in seed funding. SipChip and the test strip at its core, were specifically engineered to work in nearly all beverages, and at the moment it detects several types of Benzodiazepines including Rohypnol (also known as "Roofies"), Xanax, Valium, Serax, Versed, and Restoril. Undercover Colors is a brand of nail polish that changes its color upon coming into contact with any liquid containing incapacitating agents, such as rohypnol, xanax and GHB, or more commonly known as date rape drugs. Undercover Colors is a nail polish company that creates products designed to detect date rape drugs. Nail Art & Polish Nail Polish 1100 (22.00 / Fl Oz) 3.95 delivery May 30 - 31. “Our test works very similar to a lateral-flow pregnancy test. AugHere's to smart boys who care about women's safety Four undergrads at North Carolina State University are currently in the lab working on Undercover Colors, a nail polish. You can see a YouTube demonstration video of the product, released in January 2019, below.īarbara Cook, the CEO of Undercover Colors, explained to AFP in an email how SipChip works. ![]() The test kit was finally released for sale in September 2018 - you can find some of the news coverage of the launch here and here. A screenshot from the website of Undercover Colors which has developed a new device for detecting tainted drinks called the SipChip
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