Chemical profiling of heroin recovered from the North Korean merchant vessel Pong Su

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 597-602

  Collins, Michael ^a   Casale, Ellen ^b   Hibbert, D Brynn ^c   Panicker, Sini ^b   Robertson, James ^d   Vujic, Sasha ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEASUREMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b Drug Enforcement Administration   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Forensic and Data Centres   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Chemical profiling; Forensic science; Heroin; Origin classification

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; DIAMORPHINE; ILLICIT DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DRUG TRAFFIC; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORTH KOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIP;

EID: 33646729485     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2006.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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