Abstract: A drug checking cup includes a special container constructed of a transparent plastic with an oval truncated top member and an oval truncated bottom member connected by a continuous wall to form a container for the cup, with the continuous wall having a flat portion, plus a circular mouth formed in the top member and a lid operable to close the mouth along with a flat cassette containing at least one drug testing strip placed in the cup through the mouth and retainer means in the cup securing the cassette in the cup at an angle to the inner surface of said flat portion of the continuous wall and in close proximity thereto whereby images on the testing strip in the cassette can be viewed, photocopied and scanned through said flat portion of the wall without distortion from the presence of the specimen in the cup in the space between the cassette and the flat portion of the continuous wall.