Forensics

(CHECK WITH BRUKER) Novel psychoactive substances (NSP) are a huge problem for society, with an ever-growing number of designer drugs illicitly available. An important weapon in the fight against NPS is the ability to rapidly identify suspected materials, so more checks can be carried out and more prosecutions made. Techniques like low field NMR offer huge promise here, as they could allow relatively low-cost instruments to be placed at customs check points, allowing not only the ID of known NPS, but also others suspected ones with a degree of similarity.

Such an approach would require a very simple software interface that could be used by non-experts, but it would also need to be highly accurate to avoid as far as possible false positives and false negatives.

Mnova provides tools to do exactly this, either for this specific application or other similar ones. Read on to find out more details of this application area.