It has been found that sequences can be extracted and amplified from typical drug seizures. Non-human DNA in seizures was readily compared for similarities, pair-wise, seizure to seizure and this should be applicable to police intelligence almost immediately and court usage after considerable experience and validation. the technology's limits are explored and future developments are suggested. Drug seizures usually have less DNA than soils but seizures have a potential useful human content. Even in the relatively small quantities of drug subjected to testing, the human DNA content was sufficient for convential forensic "trace DNA" techniques to be quite promising. It is suggested that the human content should be treated as a special case of trace DNA. The limited data currently available suggest that in principlethe human profiling described in this paper should be conducted by any forensic laboratory around Australia and across most of the world using familiar equipment and techniques. The profiles generated would be compatible with DNA databases sucha as National Criminal Investigation DNA Database (NCIDD). An application has been made to NDLERF to validate this approach. The DNA sequences database produced as part of this product has not been included in the report, but is available by contacting the NDLERF Secretariat.
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