New Insights into Forensic Toxicology

Dear Colleagues,

Forensic toxicology is a rapidly developing scientific field that covers clinical toxicology, forensic medicine and forensic analytics. With the development of the chemical and IT industries, new psychoactive substances appear on the black market every year, some of which pose a real threat to human life. In addition to new xenobiotics, compounds associated with the history of toxicology, such as cyanides, nitrates (III), arsenic and thallium compounds, are becoming increasingly common.

In response to these concerns, modern forensic toxicology must employ advanced analytical instrumentation, such as GC-MS, LC-MS, ICP-MS, as well as seeking new research methods. For this reason, methodological papers that allow the relatively simple and rapid determination of a wide range of different analytes in a diversified matrix are becoming extremely valuable. The determination of both chemical weapons and metabolites, as well as degradation products of compounds such as novichok, is also becoming a challenge for the modern world in the light of war.

This Special Issue seeks papers based on modern and advanced analytical methods, as well as more conventional techniques, for tackling intoxications with poisons that have existed for centuries.

The scope of this Special Issue is broad, encompassing forensic toxicology, including synthetic and natural poisons; development and application of novel analytical methods; interpretation of forensic toxicological data; new psychoactive substances and conventional illicit drugs; driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol; the latest advances in biomarker-related research; and markers of necrochemical diagnostics.

We will also consider papers covering other related topics of high scientific value. Original papers and review articles are encouraged.

Dr. Marcin Zawadzki
Dr. Paweł Szpot
Guest Editors

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