Toxicology

The Toxicology Laboratory serves all 100 counties of the North Carolina Medical Examiner System by providing quality- driven forensic analytical testing of specimens and evidence from medical examiner cases. The laboratory is accredited and responsible for testing, records maintenance, and review/interpretation of results for more than 15,000 medical examiner cases annually. The staff which consists of toxicologists, chemists, laboratory technicians and administrative technicians performs more than 36,000 analytical tests each year.

Note: Toxicologists at the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (NC-OCME) are limited to interpreting information for our own cases.