FRSC 3800 - Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2026/2027

FRSC 3800 - Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2026/2027 Toxicology - Answers Study of the adverse effects of drugs and poisons on the body Forensic toxicology - Answers application of scientific methods that are used in toxicology for the investigation of crime and death Drug - Answers Any chemical substance, other than one that is required for normal body function that when applied or introduced into an organism, has the effect of altering the body function Poison - Answers Any substance when applied or introduced into the body causes damage, disturbance of bodily function or adverse effects Paracelsius () - Answers Created the foundation of toxicology Foundation of toxicology - Answers "What is there that is not poison? All things are poison and nothing without poison. Solely the dose determines that a thing is not poison" Bernardino Ramazzini () - Answers Wrote the basic tenet for the occupational toxicologist when he stated, "when a doctor visits a working-class home, he should be content to sit on a three-legged stool if there isn't a gilded chair, and he should take his time for his examination and to the questions recommended by Hippocrates, he should add one more - What is your occupation?" Arsenic - Answers An "inheritance powder" that is odorless, tasteless and readily available for killing rats. The symptoms of arsenic poisoning include vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pains and Guillian Barre Syndrome Marsh Test - Answers Test developed in 1836 for the detection of arsenic in bodily fluids and tissues Reinsch Test - Answers Test developed in 1842 to detect heavy metals, including arsenic Mathiew Orfila () - Answers One of the founders of L'Academie de Medecine and held chair of legal medecine at the Sorbonne, Paris. He published Traite des Poisons ou Toxicologie Generale, which divided poisons into six classifications. He also proclaimed that "Investigations of deaths were too important to be left to dabblers and emphasized that toxicology must be a separate science and autopsy and chemical analysis must be its foundation" and "that poisons must be absorbed or enter the blood to manifest their toxic effects" 6 Classifications of poisons - Answers Corrosive, astringents, acrids, stupefying or narcotics, carcotico-acrids and septic or putrefacants First forensic toxicology lab - Answers Created in 1868, named "Insitut de medecine legale du Paris" Dr. Wilfred Derome - Answers Spearheaded the opening of thte first forensic lab in all of North America, first expert in North America to testify in Court on ethyl alcohol in blood in 1922, invented the microspherometer in 1926, which can reveal the marks left on the surface of bullets fired from a firearm for the purpose of identification and allowed the presentation of scientific evidence in Court for the first time on ballistics RCMP labs - Answers RCMP scientific laboratory established in 1937 in Regina, opened crime lab in Ottawa in 1942. RCMP have 3 forensic labs across Canada, which are in Vancouver, Edmonton and Ottawa Centre of Forensic Sciences - Answers AG lab was renamed Centre of Forensic Sciences in 1966 to enhance appearance of independence, D.M Lucas was appointed director of CFS in 1967, toxicology section expanded to include breath and alcohol testing Client Groups - Answers Office of the Chief Coroner Ontario Forensic Pathology Services Police services from across province Ontario Fire Marshall's Office Ministry of the Attorney General Criminal Lawyers Association Special Investigations Unit Transportation Safety Board and Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario Types of cases - Answers Coroner's death investigations and criminal investigations Duties of a forensic toxicologist - Answers Perform/direct analysis of body fluids and tissues Interpretation of analytical findings, Write reports Prepare letters of opinions Provide expert testimony Training and education Conduct research and method development Court testimony - Answers Provide objective and impartial opinion evidence that is within your expertise, regardless of who you were called by to testify Training and education - Answers Breath program to police officers across Ontario Drug facilitated sexual assault lectures Crown attorney summer school/defense conferences Miscellaneous teaching and lecture requests Research and method development - Answers Controlled experiments in order to increase scientific knowledge and produce peer-revied publication Test new equipment and develop standards interesting case reports involving drugs