Host: The Japanese Society of Toxicology
Name : The 47th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Toxicology
Date : 2020 -
Hair testing has been performed extensively in the field of forensic science to obtain firm evidence of drug ingestion. Hair is the only specimen that can provide chronological information on individual drug use in addition to its longer detection windows. Recently, we investigated the time-course changes in drug distribution along single-strand hair at high resolution using MALDI-MS imaging and sectional hair analyses of 1-mm segments to investigate the incorporation pathways of drugs into hair.
The current analytical methods will be presented as well as additional new findings on the drug incorporation into hair and practical cases of hair testing.
