We'll be previewing issues of the TIAFT Bulletin as they are released each quarter.

Special thanks to Jennifer Schumann and Sarah Wille, editors of the TIAFT Bulletin. For more information on the Bulletin, including how to submit content, click here.

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We tell the story of the TIAFT2020 conference in Capetown, South Africa - a conference that never actually happened.

Thanks to Alicia Evans, Bronwen Davies, Lorna Martin, Marc LeBeau, Simon Elliott, Dimitri Gerostamoulos and Michaela Kenneally for taking part in this episode.

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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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We'll be previewing issues of the TIAFT Bulletin as they are released each quarter.

Special thanks to Jennifer Schumann and Sarah Wille, editors of the TIAFT 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

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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, EMCDDA
• Conor Crean, UNODC
• Alex Krotulski, CFSRE

These updates will be a regular part of our podcast schedule, letting you know about recent developments in NPS markets, detection and harms. In this episode we discuss Early Warning Systems and potential changes in the synthetic cannabinoid market.

Some info on the new class of OXIZID SCRAs

The UNODC Tox-Portal - get involved!


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We'll be previewing issues of the TIAFT Bulletin as they are released each quarter. 

Special thanks to Jennifer Schumann and Sarah Wille, editors of the TIAFT Bulletin. For more information on the Bulletin, including how to submit content, click here.

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

1. Polettini A, et al. LC–QTOF-MS Presumptive Identification of Synthetic Cannabinoids without Reference Chromatographic Retention/Mass Spectral Information. II. Evaluation of a Computational Approach for Predicting and Identifying Unknown High-Resolution Product Ion Mass Spectra. (2021) Journal of Analytical Toxicology, 45(5):440-61.
2. Kuwayama, K. et al. Development of the “selective concentration” analytical method for drug-containing hair regions based on micro-segmental analysis to identify a trace amount of drug in hair: hair analysis following single-dose ingestion of midazolam. (2021) Forensic Toxicology, 39(1):156-66.
3. Robin, T. First-Line Toxicological Screening with Fully Automated Extraction. (2021) Journal of Analytical Toxicology, 45(3):252-68.
4. Kranenburg, R. Spotting isomer mixtures in forensic illicit drug casework with GC–VUV using automated coelution detection and spectral deconvolution. (2021) Journal of Chromatography B, 1173:122675.
5. Elmsjö, A. Post-Mortem Metabolomics: A Novel Approach in Clinical Biomarker Discovery and a Potential Tool in Death Investigations. (2021) Chemical Research in Toxicology, 34(6):1496-1502.

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We chat with Alex Krotulski about his work with CFSRE and NPS Discovery. You can find out more about these initiatives, and access the many resources they produce, at https://www.npsdiscovery.org/

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Modern forensic toxicologists are able to detect tiny amounts of drugs in a sample.  Is it possible we are now too sensitive?

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We chat with Jenny Button, Deputy Director of Chiron, about the use of reference standards in forensic toxicology.

Jenny's written a book chapter about all this - it's really good! Here's a link.

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Tim chats with Marthe Vandeputte about the current and potential uses of activity based assays in forensic toxicology. Links to a couple of Marthe's papers on the topic are below:

Validation of activity-based screening for synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists in a large set of serum samples

In vitro functional characterization of a panel of non-fentanyl opioid new psychoactive substances

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