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    This document summarizes and comments on a paper by Blank and Kidwell regarding external contamination of hair by cocaine. The authors agree that sweat can contribute to external drug contamination of hair, but disagree with Blank and Kidwell's conclusion that their experiments, which involved soaking hair in high drug concentrations for an hour with shaking at body temperature, demonstrate that sweat confounds typical hair drug analysis procedures. The authors argue Blank and Kidwell inappropriately modified established procedures and subjected hair to more severe contamination conditions than typical real-world exposure.

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    This document summarizes and comments on a paper by Blank and Kidwell regarding external contamination of hair by cocaine. The authors agree that sweat can contribute to external drug contamination of hair, but disagree with Blank and Kidwell's conclusion that their experiments, which involved soaking hair in high drug concentrations for an hour with shaking at body temperature, demonstrate that sweat confounds typical hair drug analysis procedures. The authors argue Blank and Kidwell inappropriately modified established procedures and subjected hair to more severe contamination conditions than typical real-world exposure.

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    This document summarizes and comments on a paper by Blank and Kidwell regarding external contamination of hair by cocaine. The authors agree that sweat can contribute to external drug contamination of hair, but disagree with Blank and Kidwell's conclusion that their experiments, which involved soaking hair in high drug concentrations for an hour with shaking at body temperature, demonstrate that sweat confounds typical hair drug analysis procedures. The authors argue Blank and Kidwell inappropriately modified established procedures and subjected hair to more severe contamination conditions than typical real-world exposure.

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    Forensic Science International 63 (1993) 157-160

    Forensic Science Internidkal

    Comments on the paper by David L. Blank and David A. Kidwell: External contamination of hair by cocaine: an issue in forensic interpretation
    Werner A. Baumgartner*, Virginia A. Hill

    (Accepted

    IO December

    1992)

    Key words: Truncated wash kinetic methods; Severe contamination conditions

    Blank and Kidwell [l] have proposed a mechanism for the external contamination of hair by the combined action of exogenous drugs and sweat which yields hair specimens that purportedly cannot be distinguished from those of active drug users by our truncated wash kinetic procedure - one of several tests used by us for distinguishing between endogenous and exogenous drugs. Drugs initially deposited on hair as powders or vapors are envisaged by the proposed mechanism to be carried by sweat into deeper-lying hair structures. Blank and Kidwell claim to have evaluated this hypothesis by experiments which involved soaking hair for 1 h with shaking in concentrated solutions of drugs at 37C. From these experiments involving severe contamination conditions, and in some instances the faulty application of our truncated wash kinetic procedure which they inappropriately modified, Blank and Kidwell concluded that external contamination of hair by drugs of abuse may make the interpretation of forensic results problematical. They further concluded that additional evidence, both replicating and extending [their] findings, needs to be generated before hair analysis can be established as a valid forensic tool. We agree with Blank and Kidwell as well as others that sweat can be a contributing factor in the external contamination of hair by drugs, but we strongly disagree with their conclusion that their experiments with significantly modified procedures have in any way demonstrated that the influence of sweat confounds our
    * Corresponding author.

    0379-0738/93/$06.00 0 1993 Elsevier Scientific SSDI 0379-0738(93)01384-4

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