Arab Scientific Working Group for Forensic Toxicology (ASWGFT): Guidelines for Method Validation in Forensic Toxicology

Scientific Working Group for Forensic Toxicology (SWGTOX) standard practices for method validation in forensic toxicology.

Forensic toxicology.

Forensic toxicology is a discipline of analytical toxicology dedicated to toxicological problems of forensic relevance, for example driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or postmortem toxicology. High-quality analytical methods for identification and quantification of drugs, poisons, and/or their metabolites in complex matrices, for example body fluids or hair, are very important in ...

Profiles in Forensic Toxicology

The name of Erik Widmark is tightly linked with quantitative studies of absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) of ethanol and the introduction of statutory BAC limits for driving. Alcohol is the psychoactive substance most often encountered in forensic casework when toxicologists investigate unnatural deaths (post-mortem cases), crimes involving drug-facilitated sexual assaul...

Pitfalls in forensic toxicology.

The word `forensic' simply means `to do with courts of law' and, as far as toxicology and biochemistry laboratories are concerned, embraces everything which has or might have legal implications. Some of the work in which the biochemistry department becomes involved is obviously `forensic' but this may not be apparent at the time of receipt of the request; this is the ®rst pitfall. Toseland high...

Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Accident and suicide are the two main epidemiological categories of poisoning; at home and at work are the two main places for it to occur; and clinically it may conveniently be classed as acute or chronic. Availability plays an important part in the incidence of poisoning and in the choice of agent by a person intending suicide, in the substance swallowed by a child, and in the toxic agent aff...