Detection of denatonium benzoate (Bitrex) remnants in noncommercial alcoholic beverages by Raman spectroscopy

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1358-1363

  Kwiatkowski, Andrzej ^a   Czerwicka, Małgorzata ^b   Smulko, Janusz ^a   Stepnowski, Piotr ^b  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bitrex; Denatonium benzoate; Forensic science; Illicit alcohol; Raman spectroscopy; Support vector machine algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908327109     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.12461     Document Type: Article

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