Indian Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 3

Detection and identification of Acephate insecticide in visceral material: A case study

  • Author:
  • Vinod Dhingra*,, Sangeeta Dhingra**,
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Published Online: Sep 1, 2009
  • Page Number: 104 to 106

*Regional Forensic Science Laboratory, Gwalior, MP, 474001

**S.M.S. Govt. Model Science College, Gwalior, MP, 474001

*For Correspondance Vinod Dhingra* (*Scientific officer)

**Sangeeta Dhingra** (“Research scholar)

Abstract

The Acephate is an organophosphorous insecticide of broad spectrum used in field crops. The easy availability of Acephate is generally encountered in forensic cases. The aim of present paper is to describe symptoms, postmortem changes occur in a reported case of Acephate insecticide and detection and identification of insecticide in visceral material by T.L.C.

Keywords

Acephate, Orthene, Acetamidophos