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1Department of Life Sciences, Forensic Science Unit, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building 150 Stamford St., SE1 9NN, London, UK.
International Journal of Legal Medicine
|April 24, 2004
Abstract:
This paper demonstrates that blowfly larval development is slightly impacted by paracetamol if present in the rearing foodstuff particularly during days 2-4 of development. Since paracetamol and similar analgesic drugs are involved in a large number of overdose deaths each year this information is of importance where blowfly growth is used to estimate the minimum postmortem interval.

