The Toxpod

Sam and Peter are joined by Jenn Schumann and Matt Hosking from the TIAFT Auckland  Organising Committee to whet your appetite for what promises to be another great TIAFT meeting. Come have a listen!

Don’t forget to come and see the Toxpod hosted TIAFT Taskforce on AI presentation at Tuesday Lunchtime in Auckland! 

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Meeting dates:  Sunday 23 November to Thursday 28th November

Meeting website: https://tiaft2025.com/

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We look at 5 recent publications in the field of toxicology.

1. Dietzen, Dennis J., and Connor J. Blair. "Precision Chemotherapy: Optimizing Calibration for Rapid Determination of Blood Methotrexate by Tandem Mass Spectrometry±Liquid Chromatography." Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 39.14 (2025): e10053.
2. Skjelland, D., Jørgenrud, B. M., Gundersen, K., Bjørnaas, M. A., Brekke, M., Dalaker, V. M., ... & Vallersnes, O. M. (2025). Gamma-hydroxybutyrate poisoning: clinical diagnosis versus laboratory findings. Clinical Toxicology, 63(4), 253-260.
3. Guyon, J., Maillot, A., Bastard, S., Weisse, F., Daveluy, A., & Mété, D. (2025). Psychoactive cocktail consumption on Reunion Island: A case report. Journal of Analytical Toxicology, bkaf009
4. Helland, A., Muller, S., Spigset, O., Krabseth, H. M., Hansen, M., & Skråstad, R. B. (2025). Drug detection in oral fluid and urine after single therapeutic doses of dexamphetamine, lisdexamphetamine, and methylphenidate in healthy volunteers. Journal of Analytical Toxicology, 49(2), 65-72.
5. Liu, C. M., Huang, B. Y., Hua, Z. D., Jia, W., & Zhi‐yu, L. (2025). Characterization of Mass Spectrometry Fragmentation Patterns Under Electron‐Activated Dissociation (EAD) for Rapid Structure Identification of Nitazene Analogs. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 39(12), e10030.

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Listen to the latest NPS update, email us the name of the 1000th drug detected by the EUDA and the 25th correct response will win a special edition Toxpod mug.

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Listen to the episode and email [email protected] the name of the EUDA's 1000th drug and we'll send one lucky listener a coveted Toxpod mug!

Keeping up to date with New Psychoactive Substances is hard! We've assembled a crack team of international experts to help us do just that:

• Michael Evans-Brown, EUDA
• Jared Brown, UNODC 
• Alex Krotulski, CFSRE

Hosted by TIAFT NPS Committee chair, Svante Vikingsson.
This episode features:

• THC-P - fully synthetic or semi-synthetic cannabinoid?
• the emerging etomidate and analogues 
• the intriguing mystery of BTMPS-adulterant or precursor
• the 1000th NPS reported by EUDA and much more

These updates will be a regular part of our podcast schedule, letting you know about recent developments in NPS markets, detection and harms.

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The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of TIAFT.

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Peter is joined by Bulletin editors Rebecca, Samantha and Luke for a rundown of the latest Bulletin.

For more information on the Bulletin, including how to submit content, click here.

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Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org

The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of TIAFT.

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We look at 5 recent publications in the field of toxicology.

1. Ning He, et al.  Contextual bias in forensic toxicology decisions: A follow-up empirical study from China. (2024) Journal of Forensic Sciences, doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.15520.
2. Kesmen, E. et al. Bioinformatics-driven untargeted metabolomic profiling for clinical screening of methamphetamine abuse. (2024) Forensic Toxicology, doi: 10.1007/s11419-024-00703-2.
3. Schuller, M. et al. Electromembrane extraction of drugs of abuse and prescription drugs from micropulverized hair. (2024) Journal of Analytical Toxicology, doi: 10.1093/jat/bkae051.
4. Schackmuth, M. et al. Identification of fentanyl analogs and potential biomarkers in urine using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and liquid chromatography-quadrupole/time of flight mass spectrometry (LC-Q/TOF-MS). (2024) Journal of Chromatography B, doi: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2024.124303.
5. Trobbiani, S. et al. Increasing the linear dynamic range in LC-MS: is it valid to use a less abundant isotopologue? (2017) Drug Testing and Analysis, doi: 10.1002/dta.2175

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The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of TIAFT or their employers.

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In the final part of the St Gallen Special, The Toxpod speaks with TIAFT President Simon Elliott, Young Scientist Best Paper Award winner Liam Ward and host of TIAFT 2025, Matt Hosking.
Liam Ward's paper can be found here:
Ward, Liam J. et al.Postmortem metabolomics as a high-throughput cause-of-death screening tool for human death investigations, iScience, Volume 27, Issue 5, 109794

All the info you need for going to TIAFT in 2025 (23-27 November 2025) can be found at www.tiaft2025.com

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Neither Tim or I could make it to the The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists meeting in  St Gallen to get “On The Spot” interviews with delegates this year, so we asked TIAFT past President Dimitri Gerostamoulos to give us a rundown of how the  meeting went. Also we have Michael Scholz, who won the Young Scientist’s best oral presentation award. Hope you enjoy part 1! 

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Keeping up to date with New Psychoactive Substances is hard! We've assembled a crack team of experts to help us do just that:

• Michael Evans-Brown, EUDA
• Conor Crean, UNODC
• Alex Krotulski, CFSRE

And now hosted by TIAFT NPS Committee chair, Svante Vikingsson!

These updates will be a regular part of our podcast schedule, letting you know about recent developments in NPS markets, detection and harms.

Contact us at [email protected]

Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org

The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of TIAFT.

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We'll be previewing issues of the TIAFT Bulletin as they are released every few months.

Special thanks to Jennifer Schumann and Rebecca Hartman, editors of the TIAFT Bulletin. For more information on the Bulletin, including how to submit content, click here.
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Contact us at [email protected]

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The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of TIAFT.

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