Forensic Toxicologists are often challenged with analyzing drugs and pharmaceuticals in decomposed samples. The ability to not only identify these materials but offer quantitative results has been fraught with difficulties. In an article published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences -"The Temporal Fate of Drugs in Decomposing Porcine Tissue" *, the world renowned UCT Clean Screen DAU206 was employed, by a team lead by Dr. John Wyman D-ABFT, to extract a wide range of weak acid and basic drugs from decomposing porcine samples.
The data shows that this SPE column can be used in a very highly productive and efficient manner to extract, identify and quantify a diverse range of drugs in a variety of samples that commonly face the forensic toxicology community. This range of drugs included not only basic compounds (Amitriptyline/Methadone and Morphine), but weak acid/neutrals such as Diazepam and Carisoprodol. UCT has long been associated with the forensic community and has been supportive of it's needs; this article demonstrates the analytical excellence of the Clean Screen DAU column.
*Wyman, J "The Temporal Fate of Drugs in Decomposing Porcine Tissue" Journal of Forensic Sciences. Volume 56 p.690 (2011)
Monday, May 16, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
LAPRW 2011 in Uruguay
Come visit UCT at the 3rd annual Latin American Pesticide Residue Workshop (LAPRW 2011) in Montevideo Uruguay. The meeting runs from May 8th to the 11th. Our team of senior representatives will be on hand in Booth #5. Our company president Michael Telepchak will also be presenting "The Chemistry of Solid Phase Extraction" Tuesday May 10th in the Sala Florida Room at 6pm.
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