ETX 20 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sarin, Adme, Forensic Toxicology
11 Mar 2014
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Botox is a poison that can kill easily. One of the most toxic substance know (7000000 times more letha than cobra venom. The cigars were never used, but found to be effective years later. Japanese biological warfare group unit 731 fed the toxin to prisoners during japan"s occupation of manchuria in the 1930s. Aum supreme truth cult in japan set up a plant for its bulk production, but used sarin nerve gas in the final product. Majority of work is analyzing samples for drugs in crime labs(mostly dui"s) Similar work in looking for drugs in animals in athletics and humans in athletics. The expertise of forensic toxicologists is invoked primarily to aid in establishing the cause of death and determining its circumstances in a postmortem investigation. (aids with overdose or homicide) Task of forensic toxicologist: id poison, quantitate poison, interpret analytic findings in regard to the physiologic and behavioral effects of the detected chemicals on the sample.
