Forensic Science via Chemistry Major

sschoe2
Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:58:22 +0000

I agree we have a forensics department where I work. Basically they investigate complaints from consumers. This drink tastes bitter, this one has a white powder, a foreign object is in this lot of chips, and they use analytical chem and their knowledge of the manufacturing process to track down the cause. For example in the case of an off taste or smell they will do GC and LC to get a profile of all the flavor compounds and identify compounds that are present in too high or low amounts and compounds that shouldn’t be there and trace the source.