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FORCON provides consultation, information and instructional services in matters related to toxicology, drug identification and chemical analysis.
These services are applied in the following areas:
- Criminal Matters
- Civil Proceedings
- Employment Arbitration
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Equipment and Method Evaluations
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Regulatory Programs
- Public Safety
- Advisory Role to Government, Industry and the Public
Alcohol
- Absorption, distribution and elimination characteristics of a given individual
- State of sobriety testing in the proven absence of alcohol
- State of sobriety testing at given blood alcohol concentrations (BAC)
- Establishment of a pharmacological profile for a subject under given conditions of alcohol consumption
- Assessment of the ability to provide breath samples using "approved screening devices" and "approved instruments" set out in the Criminal Code of Canada.
- Determination of blood:breath ratios
- Determination of urine:blood ratios
- Analysis of alcohol standard solutions, biological samples and alcoholic beverages
- Certification analysis of standard alcohol solutions used to calibrate breath testing equipment
- Alcohol monitoring
- Training in the use of breath testing equipment
- Review of documents and other material prepared in support of criminal or civil actions
- Preparation of reports, lecturing and provision of expert witness services to all levels of court
- Analysis of commercial alcoholic beverages to ensure compliance with LLBO regulations
Drugs and other toxic substances
- Absorption, distribution and elimination characteristics of drugs and other toxic substances in the body
- Assessment of the pharmacological effect on the body including therapeutic and toxic levels of significance
- Impairment, tolerance
- Polydrug use
- Drug analysis: powders, tablets, plant materials; biological samples
- Drug screening and monitoring
- Assessment of drug detection methods
Other
Application of forensically acceptable scientific methods and equipment to problems of chemical identification, including the comparison of substances and/or material for common features and/or differences, to establish a relationship, or lack thereof, among the samples/material analyzed
Assessment of scientific equipment and general methodology for suitability to specific analytical problems
Provision of seminars on forensic toxicology and information protection technology
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