COCAINE IDENTIFICATION IN SAMPLES INCLUDI NG OTHER LOCAL-ANESTHETICS AS WELL

Illicit use and traffic of COCAINE has increased in European countries . It has become absolutely necessary to intensify analytical work and give more detail information to national authorities. Illicit cocaine sometimes contains other local anesthetics not subject to abuse contro l, and occasionally suspected cocaine is found to consist exclusively of the latter. The aim of analysis is to use a method which provides h igh sensitivity, optimum separation and irrefutable identification of al compounds. Ideally, the analysis itself should be performed in one run. So we used TLC, GC, UV and GC/MS, to solve such a problem.