New Technique Can Help Pinpoint Where Heroin Batches Come From

New method describes measuring  strontium isotopes can be used as a chemical marker for geography and geology to differentiate heroin samples from different geographic regions.

Joshua DeBord, Ali Pourmand, Sarah C. Jantzi, Sini Panicker, Jose Almirall. Profiling of heroin and assignment of provenance by 87 Sr/ 86 Sr isotope ratio analysis. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2017; DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2017.07.049

Last Updated on October 4, 2017 by PainRelief.com