Rapid overview of the services

 
 

The following services are provided by X-Pertise :


  1. -Analysis of autopsy samples (fluids and tissues) and from living subjects

  2. -Interpretation of analytical results, discussion

  3. -Expert witness statement

  4. -Alternative specimens (oral fluid, sweat, meconium and mostly hair) testing

  5. -Characterization of long-term chronic excessive drinking (by measuring ethyl glucuronide)

  6. -Drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA), neglect of old people, crime under influence

  7. -Drug testing at the workplace, management of risks due to psychoactive substances

  8. -Interpretation of adverse analytical findings in doping control (steroids, drugs, hormones)

  9. -Audit, consulting, management of co-workers, implementation of specific units in the lab

  10. -Hair testing for performance enhancing drugs and doping control

  11. -Driving under the influence of ethanol, pharmaceuticals and / or drugs of abuse

  12. -Toxicology and Scuba diving

X-Pertise Consulting : a global response in toxicology sciences !

About Pascal Kintz


Prof Kintz is widely recognised as the leading global authority on drugs in hair testing with many years experience of developing the science and publishing internationally on the subject.  Prof Kintz first graduated as a Pharmacist at the University of Strasbourg in 1985 and after a period of research in molecular pharmacology, undertook his PhD on analytical methods for drugs of abuse at the Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg.

Prof Kintz has held positions as Associate Professor of Legal Medicine (1990-2004), Associate Director of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Strasbourg (1990-2004) and joined Chemtox Laboratory in 2004 where he became the Head of Scientific Affairs before leaving in 2010.  Prof Kintz is now a senior consultant in Forensic Toxicology and specifically Drugs in Hair Testing at the University of Strasbourg.


Prof Kintz has a well established and truly international perspective on Drugs in Hair Testing: he is Past President of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT); Founding Member and Past President of the Society of Hair Testing (SoHT); Member of the Gesellschaft für Toxicologische und Forensische Chemie (Germany); Member of the Society of Forensic Toxicologists (USA) and is a certified ‘Expert’ for the French and German legal systems.


Dr Kintz has written over 500 papers and edited 6 books in two languages on forensic toxicology and is a regular guest speaker at scientific meetings and conferences all around the world.