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Instrumentation

U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency orders 9 JEOL NMRs

by Marc S. Reisch
October 19, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 42

 

A photo of a JEOL 500 MHZ NMR magnet.
Credit: JEOL
A JEOL 500-MHz NMR

Scientific instrument maker JEOL says the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Office of Forensic Sciences has ordered nine of its NMR spectrometers to combat traffic in illicit designer drugs. The 500-MHz instruments use the firm’s Royal HFX probe, which JEOL says enhances analysis of fluorine, an element that is increasingly used in many of the newer designer drugs.

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