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Validation of a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Forensic Soils Investigation in Brazil

Samara Alves Testoni ORCID logo , Vander Freitas Melo ORCID logo , Lorna Anne Dawson ORCID logo , Fábio Augusto da Silva Salvador ORCID logo , Paulo Akira Kunii ORCID logo

04/Sep/2019

ABSTRACT Soil traces are useful as forensic evidence due to their potential to transfer and adhere to different types of surfaces on a range of objects or persons. Several works have been developed in forensic soils, under different analytical approaches. However, in Brazil, only the researches from the Group of the Federal University of Paraná have developed works with soils under a forensic approach. Focus has been given on the sequential chemical analyses and mineralogical techniques once they presented a […]

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