Toxicology Services in Singapore.
The toxicology laboratory provides a whole range of forensic toxicology services to the doctors, pathologists, law enforcement agencies and the public. This paper, anchored in one hundred and ten years of history, traces the practice and development of this laboratory to the present day of offering services in blood for alcohol determinations, antemortem biological fluids (gastric aspirate, blood, etc.) and postmortem biological fluids and tissues (liver, kidney, etc.) for drugs and poisons screen. This paper spells out in detail the nature of specimens required, the analytical techniques used, the toxins looked for and the medico-legal implications of our analytical findings. A number of recent cases of interest are presented.
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Institute of Science and Forensic Medicine, Singapore.
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Gunasegaram
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D001826:Body Fluids; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D012846:Singapore; D014116:Toxicology