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CHEMISTRY & TOXICOLOGY DIVISION
 
Himachal Pradesh is known as a fruit bowl and as such insecticides, pesticides are widely used. That makes the poisons’ accessibility easy to the common man and cases of deaths due to poisons are more. In addition more than one thousand deaths are reported on the roads per annum due to road accidents in Himachal Pradesh thereby contributing towards viscera analysis workload. With the establishment of RFSLs at Dharamshala & Mandi, there has been a fall in the case receipt at State FSL from 2010-11 onwards. The division undertakes examination of clue materials such as:
 
Poisons.
 
Petroleum product residues in arson and dowry deaths.
 
Alcohol estimation from blood and urine for drunkenness
 

Phenolphthalein in trap cases.
 
Liquor.
 
Methanol in hooch tragedy.
 
Acids attacks.
 
Grease, wax, oils and resins.
   
Cosmetics and organic dyes
   
Adulteration in petroleum products
   
Chemical identification of unknown substances