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104            106      samples have been analyzed. Proposed here is an approach based on the QuEChERS (acronym for Quick, Easy, Cheap,   109  114 The following posters were presented at recent international conferences in 2014, such as ASMS 2014, ISCC 2014 and   116 Increasing numbers of criminal cases involving drugs and poisons have been reported in Japan.  For instance, sleeping   117 Shimadzu Corporation announced the release of the new mutual support between the Skyline quantitative proteomics   118  119  121














































                           CONTENTS  Featuring on Forensics / Toxicology  Insight from Customer  Professor Pierre MARQUET of University Hospital of Limoges We interviewed Professor Pierre MARQUET, head of the Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacovigilance department  at the University Hospital of Limoges, France. His research area is pharmacology and toxicology. Since 2007, he has  been the head of the INSERM research unit UMR 850 in “Pharmacology of immunosuppressive drugs in transplanta- tion” (INSERM is the French National Institute of Medical and Health Research).  Forensics Determination of opiates, amphetamines and cocaine in whole blood, plasma and  urine by UHPLC-MS/MS using a QuEChERS sample preparation The determination of drugs
























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