Feds Tweak Drug Test Rules: Same Old Panels, Cleaner Notes
Published Date: 3/13/2026
Rule
Summary
The government is keeping the same drug testing rules for federal workplaces starting July 7, 2025. If you work for a federal agency, your urine or oral fluid drug tests will follow the same drug lists and reporting names as before—no surprises or new costs. They just cleaned up some footnotes to make things clearer and easier to understand.
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Federal Drug Testing Rules Unchanged
If you work for a federal agency, your urine and oral fluid drug testing panels, analytes, test cutoffs, and the required report nomenclature remain the same, effective July 7, 2025. HHS made only clarifying edits to footnotes and states there are no revisions from the January 16, 2025 Notification.
Published Numeric Test Cutoffs Confirmed
If you work for a federal agency and are drug-tested, your specimen results will be reported using the published initial and confirmatory numeric cutoffs — for example, urine Delta-9-THCC initial cutoff 50 ng/mL and confirmatory 15 ng/mL; urine benzoylecgonine initial 150 ng/mL and confirmatory 100 ng/mL; oral fluid Delta-9-THC initial 4 ng/mL and confirmatory 2 ng/mL; oral fluid fentanyl initial 4 ng/mL and confirmatory 1 ng/mL — effective July 7, 2025.
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