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Acknowledgements
The Laboratory and Scientific Section of the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC) wishes to express its thanks to the following experts who participated
in the Consultative Meeting on Recommended Methods for the Impurity
Profiling of Heroin and Cocaine, organized by UNODC, in collaboration with the
Australian Government Analytical Laboratories, in Sydney, Australia, from 8 to
12 November 1999, for their contribution to the contents of the present manual:
Mr. Olivier Guéniat, Police de sûreté, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Mr. Adrian V. Kemmenoe, Forensic Science Service (FSS), Birmingham
Laboratory, Birmingham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland
Mr. Helmut Neumann, Kriminaltechnisches Institut, Bundeskriminalamt
(BKA), Wiesbaden, Germany
Ms. Jana Skopec,* Australian Government Analytical Laboratories (AGAL),
Pymble, New South Wales, Australia
Mr. James Wong, Bureau of Drug Analysis Services (BDAS), Health Canada,
Western Region Health Protection Branch, Burnaby, British Columbia,
Canada
The Laboratory and Scientific Section also wishes to express its thanks to
Mr. Don Cooper and Mr. Helmut Neumann for reviewing, updating and finalizing
the manuscript, also using additional contributions from the participants.**
*Now with Agrifor Scientific Pty Ltd., Australia.
**Contact details of named individuals can be requested from the UNODC Laboratory and Scientific
Section (P.O. Box 500, 1400 Vienna, Austria).
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