Legal Medicine

The Department of Legal Medicine works mostly at the request of the Luxembourg judicial authorities, the police and other government bodies.

Its main activity areas are all aspects of forensic medicine, the genetic identification based on molecular biology methods, toxicological reports for autopsies and matters concerning living persons, the identification and testing of narcotic drugs and the control of drugs, food supplements or other products of unknown origin suspected of containing medicinal substances.

The Department is composed of four services and one unit :

• Forensic Medicine
  – umedo unit : Unit for medicolegal documentation of injuries
• Analytical Chemistry
• Forensic Genetics
• Forensic Toxicology