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Analytical chemistry service

Integrated into the forensic medicine department, the service was created at the end of 2016.

The missions

The service is composed of a head of services, technical managers, a quality manager, technical and administrative staff. To carry out its missions, it has state-of-the-art equipment worthy of the most efficient analysis laboratories. The main tasks are:

  • identification and dosage of narcotics;
  • identification and dosage of drugs and medicines in wastewater;
  • control of legal, falsified, or counterfeit medicines;
  • analysis of the presence of fire accelerant in suspected fire;
  • identification of highly toxic substances in unknown samples.

Principal clients include the police, the customs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health and Social Security, the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Healthcare (EDQM) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) but also doctors, pharmacists, social services (Jugend an Drogenhellef, Abrigado, …), private companies and individuals.

Research projects

Research projects are continuously being carried out, often in collaboration with other of the LNS’ departments, as well as national and international universities and research institutes.

A commitment to quality

Ensuring the quality of our services is of paramount importance in all our activities.

  • Since November 2019, the service is attested for the control of medicines (Attest.No. EDQM/MJA-198) and is part of the OMCL (Official Medicines Control Laboratories) of EDQM. This network of laboratories (“GEON”, General European OMCL Network) helps the regulatory authorities to control the quality of medicines for human and veterinary use available on the European market.
  • Since January 2022, the service is accredited by OLAS under the accreditation number (1/052) to ISO/IEC 17025-testing. The technical annex is available on the OLAS website.

 

the team