Despite many innovations and increased knowledge within forensic toxicology, there are many challenges that persist...

Trace evidence can play a significant role in criminal investigations. Glass, paint, fire debris, gunshot residues, tapes, cosmetics, plastics, pollens, soils, hairs, and fibers...

The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT) is thrilled to announce an online professional development opportunity – spread over four 2.5-hour sessions....

Now in its 4th year and hosted by the CFSRE, this Current Trends Symposium provides attendees with live access to internationally renowned experts in the field of Forensic Toxicology....

Now in its 4th year and hosted by the CFSRE, this Current Trends Symposium provides attendees with live access to internationally renowned experts in the field of Forensic Trace Analysis....

Join us for the first in the 2021 Online Forensic Symposium Series of events: Current Trends in Seized Drug Analysis - Archival....

Welcome to the 2022 Current Trends Symposium on Seized Drug Analysis. Now in its 5th year, this On-line Symposium has gained a reputation for creating a sense of community for forensic practitioners across the globe while disseminating timely and impactful information from recognized experts in their respective discipline – a feat accomplished with no registration fee and no travel costs. Many thanks go to this year’s Program Chairs – Dr. Irene Breum Müller (Faculty of Health Sciences, Section for Forensic Chemistry, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Dr. Edward Sisco (Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology) for their hard work and dedication in creating an exception program of world class speakers. Along with our plenary speakers, there will be presentations on the very latest advances from our generous sponsors, a poster session, exhibit hall, discussion boards, and afternoon workshops...all free of charge....

Forensic Science has exploded in popularity over the last two decades with no signs of a slowdown in the foreseeable future. Colleges and universities across the United States have been responsive to increased student interest and heightened job growth in this discipline by creation of forensic sciences programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Many of these programs have been designed with the intent of placement of graduates into accredited laboratories or agencies. Others were developed to meet market demand. Regardless of intent, the vast majority provide training and coursework focused broadly on criminalistics and specifically on either crime scene investigation or forensic biology and chemistry....

The International Alliance of Clinical and Forensic Toxicologists (IACFT), your free, virtual, and multilingual association, is dedicating its Autumn 2021 Virtual Meeting to URINE. Urine is the biological specimen with the multitude of both functionalities and pitfalls when used in the clinical or forensic toxicology decision making. Join us for this three day virtual meeting that will be discussing urine-based topics including:

• What Is a Urine Drug Screen and How Does It Work?

• How Do False Positives and False Negatives Occur?

• When and how to perform Urine Drug Confirmations?

• Are Drug Quantitations in Urine Necessary or Could they be Misleading ?

• What Interpretations can Confidently be Made?

• Why does the way Urine gets collected matter?

• Why Does the Urine Collection Timing Matter?

• What Should You be Look Out For in Urinalysis ?

• Is Metabolomics Analysis in Urine able to Identify Potential Biomarkers?

• How to catch a Urine Drug Test cheat?

The forensic pathologist interprets toxicology results in the context of the autopsy and circumstances of death. There are areas for potential error by the forensic pathologist with regard to toxicology analysis and interpretation in death investigations. These include determining the cause of death based solely on a drug concentration, not considering the nature of the specimen, and failure to communicate with the toxicologist. These pitfalls along with case examples will be presented....