A forensic toxicologist defined his profession as a job where you wash your hands before going to the bathroom. Why? Because toxicology is the science of isolating, purifying and identifying toxic
chemicals, usually from biological materials. Forensic toxicology is an extension of the science to situations of legal consequences.
Read the case of,
"Once in a Lifetime Strength", where the role of the forensic toxicologist in establishing the cause of death is demonstrated. Late one afternoon in 1985 a young woman living alone in a quiet residential part of town heard a knock on her door. She opened it to see a stranger standing on her front porch, a man in his twenties staring at her with an odd, distant look on his face.
