The Toxpod

Sam is joined by fellow Bulletin editors Rebecca and Luke for a rundown of the latest Bulletin. For more information on the Bulletin, head to the TIAFT website or email bulletin@tiaft.org  Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org    Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their o...

We look at 5 recent publications in the field of toxicology. 1.      Helander A, Andersson A, Villén T. Origin and Interpretation of Low Methamphetamine Levels Found in Amphetamine-Positive Urine Samples: Support for Methylation of Amphetamine as a Minor Metabolic Pathway. Drug Test Anal . 2025;17(11):2276-2282. doi:10.1002/dta.3940 2.      Labay LM, Midthun KM, Kacinko SL, Papsun DM. Drug identif...

Sam is joined by fellow Bulletin editors Rebecca and Luke for a rundown of the latest Bulletin. For more information on the Bulletin, head to the TIAFT website or email bulletin@tiaft.org  Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org    Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their o...

Keeping up to date with New Psychoactive Substances is hard! We've assembled a crack team of international experts to help us do just that: Michael Evans-Brown, EUDA Jared Brown, UNODC   Alex Krotulski, CFSRE Hosted by TIAFT NPS Committee chair, Svante Vikingsson. Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org The Toxpod is a production of The International Associat...

Part 2 of On the Spot at TIAFT 2025 in Auckland, New Zealand. Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org The Toxpod is a production of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of TIAFT. You can send us a text message using this link!

At the TIAFT2025 conference in Auckland, New Zealand, Peter and Sam caught up with a few fellow toxicologists to talk about their work. Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org The Toxpod is a production of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of TIAFT. Yo...

The AI Task force  is the first of the President and Board’s Taskforces to tackle emerging issues in toxicology. TTF1 members are TIAFT members who had an active history and with a keen interest in the application of this technology in their work.   The AI Task Force: Marie Mardal (Denmark)  Stephen Trobbiani (Australia)  Nieves Manuela Barbo (Philippines)  Aaron Shapiro (Canada)  Tyler Devincenzi...

Tim, Sam and Peter explore the differences and the similarities between life and work in the Forensic and Clinical branches of Toxicology and the opportunities collaboration can bring.  And sadly TIm bids farewell to the Toxpod as he explores new opportunities. Thank you Tim for coming up with the idea of the Toxpod and all the hard work you've done! You will be missed! Contact us at toxpod@t...

Sam and Peter are joined by Jenn Schumann and Matt Hosking from the TIAFT Auckland  Organising Committee to whet your appetite for what promises to be another great TIAFT meeting. Come have a listen! Don’t forget to come and see the Toxpod hosted TIAFT Taskforce on AI presentation at Tuesday Lunchtime in Auckland!  Its not too late to register! Meeting dates:  Sunday 23 November to Thursday 28th N...

We look at 5 recent publications in the field of toxicology. Dietzen, Dennis J., and Connor J. Blair. "Precision Chemotherapy: Optimizing Calibration for Rapid Determination of Blood Methotrexate by Tandem Mass Spectrometry±Liquid Chromatography." Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 39.14 (2025): e10053. Skjelland, D., Jørgenrud, B. M., Gundersen, K., Bjørnaas, M. A., Brekke, M., D...

WIN  A TOXPOD MUG! Listen to the episode and email Toxpod@tiaft.org the name of the EUDA's 1000th drug and we'll send one lucky listener a coveted Toxpod mug! Keeping up to date with New Psychoactive Substances is hard! We've assembled a crack team of international experts to help us do just that: Michael Evans-Brown, EUDA Jared Brown, UNODC   Alex Krotulski, CFSRE Hosted by TIAFT N...

Peter is joined by Bulletin editors Rebecca, Samantha and Luke for a rundown of the latest Bulletin. For more information on the Bulletin, including how to submit content, click here . Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their own and...

We look at 5 recent publications in the field of toxicology. Ning He, et al.  Contextual bias in forensic toxicology decisions: A follow-up empirical study from China. (2024) Journal of Forensic Sciences, doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.15520. Kesmen, E. et al. Bioinformatics-driven untargeted metabolomic profiling for clinical screening of methamphetamine abuse. (2024) Forensic Toxicology, doi: 10.1007/s1...

In the final part of the St Gallen Special, The Toxpod speaks with TIAFT President Simon Elliott, Young Scientist Best Paper Award winner Liam Ward and host of TIAFT 2025, Matt Hosking. Liam Ward's paper can be found here: Ward, Liam J. et al. Postmortem metabolomics as a high-throughput cause-of-death screening tool for human death investigations,  iScience, Volume 27, Issue 5, 109794 All th...

Neither Tim or I could make it to the The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists meeting in  St Gallen to get “On The Spot” interviews with delegates this year, so we asked TIAFT past President Dimitri Gerostamoulos to give us a rundown of how the  meeting went. Also we have Michael Scholz, who won the Young Scientist’s best oral presentation award. Hope you enjoy part 1!  You can sen...

Keeping up to date with New Psychoactive Substances is hard! We've assembled a crack team of experts to help us do just that: Michael Evans-Brown, EUDA Conor Crean, UNODC Alex Krotulski, CFSRE And now hosted by TIAFT NPS Committee chair, Svante Vikingsson! These updates will be a regular part of our podcast schedule, letting you know about recent developments in NPS markets, detection and har...

We'll be previewing issues of the TIAFT Bulletin as they are released every few months. Special thanks to Jennifer Schumann and Rebecca Hartman, editors of the TIAFT Bulletin. For more information on the Bulletin, including how to submit content, click here . Geraldine's new podcast is called The Analytical Zen Podcast (buzzsprout.com) , give it a go! Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org Find...

Keeping up to date with New Psychoactive Substances is hard! We've assembled a crack team of experts to help us do just that: Michael Evans-Brown, EUDA Conor Crean, UNODC Alex Krotulski, CFSRE And now hosted by TIAFT NPS Committee chair, Svante Vikingsson! These updates will be a regular part of our podcast schedule, letting you know about recent developments in NPS markets, detection and har...

Tim is joined by Samantha Tolliver, Chief Toxicologist in the District of Columbia, to discuss the challenges of running a modern forensic toxicology laboratory. Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their own and do not necessarily refl...

We'll be previewing issues of the TIAFT Bulletin as they are released every few months. Special thanks to Jennifer Schumann and Rebecca Hartman, editors of the TIAFT Bulletin. For more information on the Bulletin, including how to submit content, click here . Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org The Toxpod is a production of The International Association o...

Like all classes of drugs, amphetamines have the potential to both help and harm our communities - depending on how and why they are used.  Tim hosted a panel discussion on this topic at the FACTA2024 conference, featuring A/Prof Rebecca McKetin, Dr Paul Liknaitzky, and Prof Olaf Drummer. Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org The Toxpod is a production of The In...

"I used to keep a quadrupole in my pocket..." Who else can say that?  Bryan received the The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists' Alan Curry Award in 2018 and was present at the "revolt" of 1963 that led to TIAFT's genesis. Even after 6 decades in toxicology he continues to support the development of our science and our scientists through the Bryan Fin...

Meet the giants upon whose shoulders modern toxicologists stand! In the first of a series on winners of TIAFT's prestigious Alan Curry Award, Peter is joined by Tony Moffat, the 2013 winner. He is still contributing to our field after more than 50 years.  Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Fo...

We'll be previewing issues of the TIAFT Bulletin as they are released every few months. Special thanks to Jennifer Schumann and Rebecca Hartman, editors of the TIAFT Bulletin. For more information on the Bulletin, including how to submit content, click here . Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org The Toxpod is a production of The International Association o...

Keeping up to date with New Psychoactive Substances is hard! We've assembled a crack team of experts to help us do just that: Svante Vikingsson, TIAFT NPS Committee chair Conor Crean, UNODC Alex Krotulski, CFSRE These updates will be a regular part of our podcast schedule, letting you know about recent developments in NPS markets, detection and harms. In this episode we discuss the dropoff in...