Founded in December 1995, the legal seat of the Society of Hair Testing is Strasbourg, France. The constitution was written according to the French law. Elections were held every two years.

Mario Cassani (Italy), Marcello Chiarotti (Italy), Carmen Jurado (Spain), Pascal Kintz (France), Patrice Mangin (at that time France, now Switzerland), Manfred Möller (Germany), Hans Sachs (Germany), Jordi Segura (Spain), Christian Staub (Switzerland), Michael Uhl (Germany), Robert Wennig (Luxembourg)

• Promotion of research in hair testing technologies in forensic, clinical and occupational sciences
• Development of international proficiency tests
• Organization of meetings and workshops
• Encouragement to scientific cooperation and exchanges among members

Board Members

President

Pascal Kintz, Laboratoire ChemTox (France)

Vice-president

Christine Moore, Immunalysis Corporation (USA)

Secretary

Robert Kronstrand, National Board of Forensic Medicine (Sweden)

Treasurer

Michael Uhl, Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt (Germany)

Administration board (in alphabetical order)

Thomas Cairns (USA), Carmen Jurado (Spain), Simona Pichini (Italy), Fritz Pragst (Germany), Hans Sachs (Germany), Christian Staub (Switzerland), Michel Yegles (Luxembourg)

(as at 2008)