Letter: Profiency testing in forensic toxicology: criteria for experimental design.

CONCEPTUALIZING TOXICOLOGY 14-1 Forensic Toxicity Testing

I. Forensic toxicity testing A. Analytic chemistry melded with organ damage consistent with the compound and concentration found (consonance of data) 1. Most intentional poisoning deaths suicide; most unintentional poisoning deaths from overdose of opioids and cocaine; toxicity from ethanol, drugs of abuse, overuse of medications lead car crash causes; unintentional nonfatal poisonings causes b...

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...

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