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
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