The number of new designer drugs is steadily rising and forensic toxicologists are being faced with providing results to assist coroners/medical examiners/enforcement agencies regarding the concentrations of these drugs in various bio-fluids. Forensic toxicologists know that the most important step is isolating these drugs from different, and often difficult matrices.
In a recent report in ToxTalk (October 2013, pp14-15), Dr. Mark Lichtenwalner and his team (Onondaga County Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Syracuse NY) were faced with not only identifying and confirming, but offering results of the concentrations of 4-Fluoroamphetamine in post mortem and ante mortem samples of blood. Dr. Lichtenwalner employed the Clean Screen ZSDAU020 SPE column as the sorbent for this analysis, along with GC-MS. From his data, he was able to provide the medical examiners with an accurate time line of the drug in this case. This published report demonstrates that the sorbents made by UCT are applicable not only to a wide range of well known drug classes and medications but are able to be used with newer drug classes also.
In a recent report in ToxTalk (October 2013, pp14-15), Dr. Mark Lichtenwalner and his team (Onondaga County Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Syracuse NY) were faced with not only identifying and confirming, but offering results of the concentrations of 4-Fluoroamphetamine in post mortem and ante mortem samples of blood. Dr. Lichtenwalner employed the Clean Screen ZSDAU020 SPE column as the sorbent for this analysis, along with GC-MS. From his data, he was able to provide the medical examiners with an accurate time line of the drug in this case. This published report demonstrates that the sorbents made by UCT are applicable not only to a wide range of well known drug classes and medications but are able to be used with newer drug classes also.
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