If you’ve ever been concerned with the safety of your drinks when you’re out and about, pretty soon there may be a way to know if someone’s slipped a date-rape drug into your cocktail. A sensor that can detect the drugs in drinks with an accuracy of 100% is currently being developed by scientists.

The test works in real time – not after you’ve consumed the beverage, thankfully. It works by analyzing a tiny drop of the drink as it comes into a chemical formula made by the researchers – sort of like a litmus test for GHB and ketamine.

The test will currently only check for GHB and ketamine, but researchers say that the test is easy to use and decipher. “You don’t even have to hold it up to the light and the system will let you know whether there are drugs dissolved in your drink,” Michael Ioffe of Tel Aviv University said. “You don’t have to do anything but dip it in your drink. The drug itself is reacting with this chemical formulation and the previously clear formula becomes dirty.”

Dr. Ioffe and his co-researcher Professor Fernando Patolsky were amazed that their test has a 100 percent success rate – no matter what drink it dips into – be it beer, liquor, soft drinks, water, etc – it responded with the correct answer.

The Israeli scientists are currently awaiting funding in order to mass produce their invention, but they haven’t yet decided how the test will let you know if your drink has been spiked.

“Maybe it will just light up or a part of it will rotate or maybe it will send a signal to your cell phone, because you want to be discreet about it.”

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