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NIR news
Volume 19 Issue 3, Pages 4–6 (2008)
doi: 10.1255/nirn.1070
Analysis of cellulose and lactose—two common excipients in Ecstasy tablets
Ines Baer,a Robert Gurnyb and Pierre Margota
aInstitut de Police Scientifique, University of
Lausanne, Batochime, 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland
bSchool of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 1211 Geneva,
Switzerland
This article discusses how NIR was applied to the study of lactose and cellulose in order to determine the different chemical forms of these two substances, which are two common exipients in Ecstasy, as well as the differentiation of their origin (producer). This could be useful in a forensic context, for the highlighting of a production network, for example, or for cases of counterfeiting legal drugs.
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