Chief Minister Conrad Sangma today announced the installation of new Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS) in the Forensic Science Laboratory, Shillong to detect narcotics.
Sangma said that the instrument heralds a new era in the ongoing war against drugs. “The results of qualitative and quantitative analyses of NDPS exhibits are rapid, precise and more importantly free from external testing reliance. A monumental milestone indeed”, he tweeted.
GC-MS can be used for the bioanalysis of body fluids to detect narcotics, barbiturates, alcohols, and drugs such as anticonvulsants, anesthetics, antihistamines, sedative hypnotics, and anti-epileptic drugs. It is also useful in detecting pollutants and metabolites in serum and in fatty acid profiling in microbes.
