Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6551510 | Forensic Science International | 2017 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The study showed that each of the three identical looking seizures consisted of up to four groups of cocaine bricks displaying the same cocaine alkaloid and residual solvent profile. The size of the groups varied from 2.4 to 63.3Â kg cocaine. The study also showed that the residual solvent profile within each of the three large seizures exhibited very little variation whereas the alkaloid profile varied considerably more. This finding suggest that the same organic solvent is used for the production of several batches of cocaine HCl. Therefore, the residual solvent profile may be a tool to link different production batches from the same manufacturer even though the alkaloid profile are different.
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Authors
Louise Stride Nielsen, Palle Villesen, Christian Lindholst,