A comparison of the performance of quality controls prepared from spiked, fortified and authentic hair for ethyl glucuronide analysis

Forensic Science International

Volumn 232, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 60-66

  Turfus, Sophie C ^a,b   Beyer, Jochen ^c   Gerostamoulos, Dimitri ^a,b   Drummer, Olaf H ^a,b  

^a VICTORIAN INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC MEDICINE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Abteilung Forensische Chemie und Toxikologie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ethyl glucuronide (EtG); Fortified; Hair; Quality control (QC); Spiked; Validation

Indexed keywords

ETHYL GLUCURONIDE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR ANALYSIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ETHYL GLUCURONIDE (ETG); FORTIFIED; HAIR; QUALITY CONTROL (QC); SPIKED; VALIDATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; GLUCURONATES; HAIR; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84883547425     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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