Book description
This book provides the first comprehensive, overview and guide to
forensic isotope analysis, an exciting new application of stable isotope
analytical techniques. Topics are introduced using examples and
real-life case studies such as food quality control where isotope
analysis has already had a major impact, in terms of consumer
protection, These examples illustrate the underlying principles of
isotope profiling or fingerprinting. A section comprising actual
criminal case work is used to build a bridge between the introduction
and the technical section to encourage students to engage with this
novel departure for analytical sciences while at the same time providing
hands-on examples for the experienced researcher and forensic
practitioner to match problems and success stories encountered with the
topics discussed in the technical section.
What little information is available on the subject in book form so
far, has been published as individual chapters in books dealing either
with mass spectrometry, forensic geoscience or environmental
forensics, this is the first book to focus on the entire spectrum of
forensic isotope analysis and will be an invaluable reference to both
researchers in the field and forensic practitioners.
