By Stuart Kurtz, D-ABFT-FT Last month, Axis was represented at the Midwest Association for Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring’s annual meeting. Toxicologist Stuart Kurtz gave a presentation on the lab’s detections of carfentanil since Axis started testing for...
By Kevin Shanks, M.S., D-ABFT-FT To quantify or not? That is the question. If you regularly read forensic toxicology reports, then you know laboratory tests can be qualitative or quantitative. Qualitative tests only provide a positive/present or negative result. ...
By Kevin Shanks, D-ABFT-FT In October, I traveled to the Society of Forensic Toxicologists (SOFT) annual meeting in Denver, CO and was able to present information about the newly emerged substituted cathinone, alpha-PiHP, and its detection in postmortem toxicology...
By Stuart Kurtz, D-ABFT-FT, This past October, I travelled to the annual meeting for the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) with our CEO, Phil Roberts, in San José, CA. While there, we had the pleasure of meeting with several of you and discussing how to...
By Kevin Shanks, M.S., D-ABFT-FT As mentioned in previous blog posts, novel psychoactive substances (NPS) come in different varieties and the Novel Emerging Compounds (NEC) Panel offered by Axis Forensic Toxicology helps to detect the most newly emerged NPS on the...
