The missions
Currently the unit is composed of 4 engineers, 5 technicians, 1 quality referent and, for the administrative part, 2 part-time secretaries. To carry out its missions, the platform has state-of-the-art equipment worthy of the most efficient analysis laboratories.
The service has the following missions
- the identification and dosage of narcotics
- the control of medicinal products, legal, falsified or counterfeit
- the analysis of food supplements or other products of unknown origin suspected of containing drug substances
- the analysis for the European Pharmacopoeia, the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines (EDQM) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The clients are the police, justice, customs, the Ministry of Health, but also private individuals such as doctors, pharmacists, social services (Jugend an Drogenhellef, Impuls, Abrigado, …) and private persons.
Quality approach
The technical platform for analytical toxicology – pharmaceutical chemistry is ISO17025 certified for the drug control part and is part of the OMCL (Official Medicines Control Laboratories) of the EDQM. This network of laboratories (“GEON“) assists the regulatory authorities in controlling the quality of medicinal products for human or veterinary use available on the European market.
Since January 2022 the platform is accredited ISO17025 for the determination of the main drugs analysed in the service: heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, THC and CBD.