CASE-STUDY - FATAL POISONING BY MALATHION

Authors
THOMPSON TS TREBLE RG MAGLIOCCO A ROETTGER JR EICHHORST JC
Citation
Ts. Thompson et al., CASE-STUDY - FATAL POISONING BY MALATHION, Forensic science international, 95(2), 1998, pp. 89-98
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, Legal
Journal title
Forensic science international → ACNP
ISSN journal
03790738
Volume
95
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
89 - 98
Database
ISI
SICI code
0379-0738(1998)95:2<89:C-FPBM>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
A case involving a fatal poisoning (suicide) by the insecticide malath ion is described. The intact insecticide was found in the post-mortem blood and gastric contents at concentrations of 1.8 and 978 mu g/ml, r espectively. None of the insecticide was found in the autopsied liver tissue, Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) techniques were u sed for the identification and quantification of malathion in the body fluids. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.