Detection of hydroquinone in a poisoning case.

J Forensic Sci

Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.

Published: January 1994

A fatality due to the ingestion of photographic developer solution containing hydroquinone is described. Hydroquinone was extracted from autopsy materials and identified using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The concentration of hydroquinone in the urine, liver, and kidney were 3.4 micrograms/mL, 0.5 and 0.2 microgram/g, respectively.

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