Last week, just days before Central Park's big Ivory Crush, a Lamont-Doherty geochemist and his colleague sawed off samples of the confiscated ivory for DNA testing and radiocarbon dating.
Police forces across the country have been asked to send up to 1,000 samples of cannabis confiscated in stop and search operations to the Home Office for analysis.
The alkaloid content in the confiscated samples ranged from not detectable to 0.19% psilocybin, and 0.01 to 0.03% psilocin.
Thus, our sampling covered most of the range of Papio and included previously unsampled regions and taxa, and does not include samples from captive animals with the exception of one sample from a confiscated animal in Cameroon.
The commandant of the facility, Colonel Burton C. Andrus of the United States Army, advised him that he would be allowed no special treatment; the samples were sealed and confiscated.
Unfortunately, before he came into pitch KPCB at our Menlo Park offices, TSA confiscated his demo samples and he walked into the meeting empty handed.
Samples were obtained from resident orangutans at OCC&Q as part of biannual health checks done by OCC&Q veterinary staff, and samples were obtained from newly confiscated animals as part of routine medical examinations.
Police in Ninghai county, Zhejiang province, recently sent 10 samples of gutter oil they had confiscated in raids for tests, but by current standards only two samples were found to be of poor quality.
Agents from Homeland Security and the C.D.C. confiscated African bush meat samples at several international airports, including in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta and Houston.
In 2010, geneticists at the B.N.D.G. had tested the Forensic Medical Corps samples and the first set of confiscated items, and had found right away that they didn't match any of the existing profiles in the bank.
