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Toxicological hair analysis has become an indispensable technique for investigating crimes such as drug abuse and sexual assault. However, due to the inherent difficulties of trace analysis and the unique characteristics of hair as a matrix that differ from those of other biological samples, hair analysis has not yet been fully integrated into the practice of forensic toxicology in Japan.
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