Advanced brand protection features are now applied to a wide variety of items, such as alcohol, cigarettes, vape cartridges, pharmaceuticals, and electronic devices, including holograms, colour-changing or UV-fluorescent inks, and micro-printed lines or watermarks. This article explores our top tips for examining these often-hidden features using our VSC workstations, to detect fakes and frauds.

Despite their frequent involvement in major crimes in the UK and beyond, a recent study is the first of its kind to focus solely on the effectiveness of the RECOVER LFT method on developing fingermarks on stainless steel knives: leading to positive comparisons to other commonly used methods.

Whilst performing examinations with the VSC range, areas of interest may need to be marked up on the digital image and accurate measurements be taken. Using the annotations and measurement tools, shapes, lines and text can be overlaid onto the digital image, but there are a few tips that can ensure measurements are precise and accurate, and annotations are kept neat whilst still indicating an area of interest.

A recent study from the Department of Forensic Genetics at the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland, assess the impact of fabric composition and colour on the visualisation of biological traces including blood, saliva, semen, and urine, using our forensic laboratory-specific light source, the Crime-lite ML PRO.

1,2-indandione can be used to develop latent (invisible) fingermarks on porous surfaces, such as paper or cardboard. Read on as we share three top tips on how to achieve the best results when visualising these marks with our powerful Crime-lite X!

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