Non‐targeted screening of body fluids for psychoactive agents is an essential task for
forensic toxicology. The challenge is the identification of xenobiotics of interest from …

Background: The challenge in systematic toxicological analysis using gas chromatography
and/or liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry is to identify compounds of …

The availability of automated, rapid and reliable methods for the systematic toxicological
analysis (STA) of drugs and poisons in biosamples is of great importance in clinical and …

A toxicology laboratory often receives a high number of samples from cases (autopsies or
clinical) that may require the quick delivery of trustworthy, accurate results. Thus, there is a …

Introduction Hyphenated mass spectrometry (MS) has evolved into a very powerful
analytical technique of high sensitivity and specificity. It is used to analyze a very wide …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes multi-analyte screening procedures for the
simultaneous detection of several drug classes in blood and urine using gas …

Depression is among the most prevalent psychiatric disorders of our society, leading to an
increase in antidepressant drug consumption that needs to be accurately determined in …

Trends in forensic toxicology show the advancement of rapid and sensitive analytical
methods for qualitative and quantitative analysis of drugs of abuse. However, forensic …

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), which combines the separation power of
GC with the power of MS for the identification of unknown compounds, possesses high …

The development of low cost MS detectors in recent years has promoted an important
increase in the applicability of GC–MS systems to analyze for the presence of foreign …