ISOTOPICS
The Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society
Volume 88
Issue 7
Oct 2012
October Meeting Notice
On Deck:
November 14, 2012
Location: TBD
Plenary Speaker: Terry Zak,
Lincoln Electric
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Fenn Tower, Cleveland State University
4:30 pm
5:30 pm
6:30 pm
7:30 pm
Executive Committee Meeting
Social Hour
Dinner
Presentation
Drug Chemistry at the Cuyahoga County Medical
Examiner’s Office
Cleveland ACS Officers
Chair:
Kat Wollyung
PerkinElmer, Inc., Akron
330-686-0056
ACS.NCW.Kat@gmail.com
Chair-Elect:
Don Jaworske
NASA Glenn Research Center
216-433-2312
Donald.A.Jaworske@nasa.gov
Treasurer:
John Moran
Department of Science and
Mathematics
Phone: 216-373-6380
jmoran@ndc.edu
Secretary:
Anna Cronin
cronina@glsc.org
Cleveland Section Web Site:
http://www.csuohio.edu/sciences
/dept/cleveland_acs/
Paul Boggs, Drug Chemistry Supervisor, Cuyahoga County Regional
Forensic Science Laboratory
The Cuyahoga County Regional Forensic Science Laboratory is a new
laboratory located at the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The purpose of this lab is to consolidate existing forensic science programs
into one central location to provide services to local law enforcement. The
drug chemistry program at CCRFLS was originally implemented for the
purposes of providing drug analyses for the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s
Office. It was later combined with the Cleveland Police Department’s drug
testing lab to form a regional drug testing program. As the supervisor my
duties have been three fold: get the program started on time, make the
incorporation of CPD personnel as smooth as possible, and to work
towards and achieve ISO 17025 accreditation. These three have been
accomplished and our role as a lab section is now to meet new trends and
developments in the drug chemistry field. In presenting our laboratory and
my particular section I will be covering my background in forensic science,
the changing face of forensic science over the past two decades, what is
happening right now in forensic science, and recent developments in drug
chemistry including Bath Salts and Spice and how these two groups of
compounds have changed forensic drug chemistry.
DINNER RESERVATIONS REQUIRED:
Please RSVP by contacting Kat Wollyung by phone at 330-686-0056 or by
email at acs.ncw.kat@gmail.com by Friday October 12 with your name,
total number of guests in your party, and a phone number. Checks made
out to “Cleveland ACS” are greatly appreciated; cash otherwise. $20 for
members and guests, $10 for retirees or unemployed, $5 for students.
Dinner will include Chicken Parmesan, Fall Salad, Traditional Risotto,
Roasted Vegetable Medley, Eggplant Parmesan Lasagna, Spring Greens,
and Green Beans Amandine
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Directions to Fenn Tower
Visitors Please Park at:
2350 Prospect Ave
Cleveland, OH 44115
After parking:
Walk outside and walk NORTH towards Euclid
Ave on E.24th Street (see Arrows on map)
Cross Euclid, Fenn tower (See Oval on the map)
will be on your right hand side.
Address of Fenn Tower is:
1983 E.24th Street, Cleveland, OH 44115
Meeting is in the Ballroom on the 3rd floor.
Speaker Bio
Mr. Paul Boggs attended Ohio University
graduating in 1990 with a BS in Forensic
Chemistry. While still in school, he began
working for the Franklin County Coroner’s
Office as a part time assistant forensic
toxicologist and upon graduation was hired full
time. In this role, Paul performed GC/MS
confirmations for the presence of controlled
substances in biological samples to assist in the
determination of cause of death. In 1992 he
joined the Ohio Highway Patrol Crime Lab. Paul
was part of the crime scene investigation team
following the 1993 Lucasville Prison riot. His
other duties ranged from bench chemistry and
expert witness testimony, to ultimately serving as
the Director of Toxicology. He developed and
implemented the Patrol’s forensic toxicology
program for the purpose of analyzing blood and
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urine samples from suspected impaired motorists
ultimately achieving certification from the
American Association of Crime Lab Directors.
Today, that program is the largest human
performance toxicology testing program in the
State of Ohio. In 2008 Paul took a job with the
Lake County Crime Lab as a forensic chemist
and toxicologist. It was during this time that he
achieved Fellow level certification from the
American Board of Criminalistics. While at the
Lake County Crime Lab, Paul also began
working for the Cuyahoga County Coroner’s
Office, overseeing the development of a new
drug chemistry testing program. In 2010 he
became the full time Drug Chemistry Supervisor
for the newly formed Cuyahoga County Regional
Forensic Science Laboratory. In 2011 the newly
formed drug chemistry section achieved ISO
17025 certification after being in existence for
only 18 months.
Selected from ACS Discoveries!
Widespread exposure to BPA substitute is
occurring from cash register receipts, other
paper
Environmental Science & Technology
People are being exposed to higher levels of the
substitute for BPA in cash register thermal paper
receipts and many of the other products that
engendered concerns about the health effects of
bisphenol A, according to a new study. Believed
to be the first analysis of occurrence of bisphenol
S (BPS) in thermal and recycled paper and paper
currency, the report appears in ACS’ journal
Environmental Science & Technology.
Kurunthachalam Kannan and colleagues point
out that growing evidence of the potentially toxic
effects of BPA has led some manufacturers to
replace it with BPS in thermal paper and other
products. BPS is closely related to BPA, with
some of the same estrogen-mimicking effects,
and unanswered questions exist about whether it
is safer. Nevertheless, very little is known about
BPS occurrence in the environment, the
scientists noted. To fill that knowledge gap, they
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analyzed 16 types of paper from the U.S., Japan,
Korea and Vietnam.
The study detected BPS in all the receipt paper
they tested, 87 percent of the samples of paper
currency and 52 percent of recycled paper. The
researchers estimate that people may be
absorbing BPS through their skin in larger doses
than they absorbed BPA when it was more
widely used – 19 times more BPS than BPA.
People who handle thermal paper in their jobs
may be absorbing much more BPS.
The authors acknowledge funding from the U.S
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
National Natural Science Foundation of China
and the Department of Science and Technology
of Shandong Province.
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