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Board Box—June 23
Recognition/Appreciation of JFS Guest Reviewers—2022
AFSA Announces Inaugural Webinar
Population ranges for the volume of distribution (Vd) of alcohol for use in forensic...
General Section Award Nominations
2024 Forensic Nursing Science (FNS) Section Awards
76th Annual Conference - What You Need to Know
Compounds identified in an illicit generic Xanax tablet are the result of a failed...
Unintended compounds produced by inexperienced clandestine chemists may present a challenge in laboratories tasked with their identification. In March 2020, an anonymously submitted tablet purchased as a generic form of Xanax was analyzed by Erowid's DrugsData.org. The gas c...
Quantitative PCR overestimation of DNA in samples contaminated with tin
Metals can pose challenges while conducting forensic DNA analysis. The presence of metal ions in evidence‐related DNA extracts can degrade DNA or inhibit PCR as applied to DNA quantification (real‐time PCR or qPCR) and/or STR amplification, leading to low success in STR profiling...
Message From the American Board of Criminalistics
Commentary on: Elkhazeen A, Poulos C, Zhang X, Cavanaugh J, Cain M. A TikTok™ “Benadryl...
Author's response
Nail analysis for the assessment of caffeine abuse in Northwest China: A population‐based...
Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive agent worldwide and has the potential for abuse, but studies monitoring caffeine abuse in China are scarce. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of caffeine abuse in northwest China and investigate the correlation between ca...
Identifying reliable ions for the statistical differentiation of structurally similar...
Definitive identification of fentanyl analogs based on mass spectral comparison is challenging given the high degree of structural and, hence, spectral similarity. To address this, a statistical method was previously developed in which two electron‐ionization (EI) mass spectra ar...
An interlaboratory study to evaluate the utility of gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry...
Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl account for over 71,000 of the approximately 107,000 overdose deaths reported in the United States in 2021. Fentanyl remains the fourth most identified drug by state and local forensic laboratories, and the second most identified drug by federal...
Piercing the surface: A mechanical analysis of stabbing with household tools
Estimating the applied power during a stabbing incident, or estimating the minimal force necessary to penetrate the body with a certain weapon is a challenging task in forensic practice. A thorough forensic evaluation of stabbing forces needs objective numerical experimental data...
The effects of the (fentanyl‐fueled) drug overdose epidemic on medicolegal death...
The evolving opioid epidemic in the United States, fueled by illicit fentanyl, has greatly increased deaths from illicit drug use. These nonnatural deaths require formal death investigation. The National Association of Medical Examiners states in its Forensic Autopsy Performance ...