Dextromethorphan and Dextrorphan Recovery from Skeletal Tissue Investigated

Of all the analytes that Forensic Toxicologists are asked to test for, THC still remains high on the list. In this recent study published in  the International Journal of Legal Medicine (DOI 10.1007/s00414-016-1368-6) from the Institute of Legal Medicine (Muenster, Germany), a procedure employing UCT’s Flagship THC SPE column (ZSTHC020)  was developed and validated for analysis of cannabinoids.

UCT would like to extend our warmest congratulations to Mariem Al Bouwalda for winning the 2018 UCT sponsored “Best Overall Chemistry Performance” in the specialized field of Nanotechnology. Mariem is a student at the Dublin Institute of Technology’s School of Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Sciences. She was presented with the prestigious award celebrating student research and ingenuity on February 22nd, 2018. 

Once again, on behalf of everyone at UCT, Congratulations Mariem on your outstanding work and we wish you all the luck in your future scientific endeavors!

UCT would like to extend our warmest congratulations to Sara Demspey, Timothy Lau, and Raquel Leblanc – Winners of the 2017 SOFT Excellence in SPE Awards. This award appropriately reflects the recent outstanding contributions they made to the field of Solid Phase Extraction in Forensic Science. 

In a recent paper authored by Kraig E. Strayer et al., published in ACS Omega ((2018) 3 514-23), UCT’s famous flagship sorbent Clean Screen ^® DAU was employed to extract fentanyl analogs from whole blood. The authors describe the development and validation of a solid phase extraction (SPE) process combined with liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry-based method for the multiplex detection of  24 illicitly manufactured fentanyl analogues and metabolites in whole blood at concentrations as low as 0.1−0.5 ng per mL using the UCT sorbent.