Background: To determine the role of drugs in fatal overdose, analyses were done on samples obtained from autopsy examination and death and crime scene investigations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of toxicology analyses of postmortem biological and non-biological samples belonging to a subject in determining the forensic cause of death. Methods: Toxicological analysi...

Background: This toxicological investigation involves a report on the death of four ‎occupants of a sport utility vehicle on one of the major busy Federal roads of Nigeria ‎where they were held for up to three hours in a traffic jam while the car was steaming.‎ Methods: Autopsy was executed using the standard procedure and toxicological ‎analysis was done using simple spectrophotometric method...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the importance toxicological analysis in acute intoxications by pesticides through experience laboratory Poison Control and Pharmacovigilance Center Morocco (CAPM). This a retrospective from January 2014 September 2020, concerning suspected poisoning cases. cholinesterase activity was measured whole blood chromatographic analyzes (GC-MS LC-MS-MS) were conduc...

The aim of toxicological screening is to detect drugs of abuse and other drugs, or to demonstrate that they have not been taken. It is performed with a variety of tests capable to detect certain substance or a group of substances. Urine is a sample of choice for toxicological screening because of less invasive sampling and the prolonged detection time of substances in urine. The Department of L...

The basic aspects of capillary electrophoresis (CE) such as: instrumentation, separation modes and its chief domains of use in forensic analysis are presented. Micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MECC), capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) and chiral separations – the most often used separation modes in drugs analysis – are described. The main directions of development of CE metho...