Entomotoxicology, experimental set-up and interpretation for forensic toxicologists.

Estimating the measurement uncertainty in forensic blood alcohol analysis.

For many reasons, forensic toxicologists are being asked to determine and report their measurement uncertainty in blood alcohol analysis. While understood conceptually, the elements and computations involved in determining measurement uncertainty are generally foreign to most forensic toxicologists. Several established and well-documented methods are available to determine and report the uncert...

The Importance of Cooperation in Forensic Sciences: The Entomotoxicology

The continuous development of forensic sciences has given his contribution to the formation of different kind of highly skilled and specialized scientists who have to work together in order to help judicial authority and police to understand dynamics of a criminal event. These are experts in different fields of traditional sciences, such as chemistry, biology, physics, entomology, but they also...

Interpretation of Ethanol Analysis in Postmortem Specimens

Since alcohol is a general central nervous system depressant, it affects the motor and cognitive performance. Alcohol abuse is a major cause of medical and social problems. Additionally, to determine cause of death in legal medicine centers, alcohol analysis is the most frequently performed test in forensic toxicology laboratories. Accurate interpretation of ethanol concentration at the time...

TIAFT – The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists Committee of Systematic Toxicological Analysis

Drug concentrations in post-mortem femoral blood compared with therapeutic concentrations in plasma

Therapeutic drug concentrations measured in plasma are of limited value as reference intervals for interpretation in post-mortem (PM) toxicology. In this study, drug concentration distributions were studied in PM femoral venous blood from 57 903 Finnish autopsy cases representing all causes of death during an 11-year period. Cause-of-death information was obtained from death certificates issued...