Accurate Forensic Analyses

Forensic scientists face strong pressures to analyze an ever-expanding number of samples and provide rapid, factual and precise results that courts can rely upon to reach a verdict. Thermo's Raman spectrometers enable laboratories to perform evidence analyses quickly and accurately. Due to its intrinsic sampling properties, Raman spectroscopy is an advanced analytical technique that provides forensic pathology and crime laboratories with rapid and accurate sample characterization while maintaining evidence integrity. Since glass and plastic packaging are weak Raman scatterers, Raman spectroscopy permits seized evidence to be analyzed and identified while it remains in its sealed evidence bag. This provides positive sample identification, while eliminating the chance of cross contamination or evidence tampering.