Ellery84
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And in the meantime, she’s free to move about the State as she likes.Here’s an explanation about why LE can’t move more quickly. In order to confirm amanita poisoning, they have to source a comparator. There are unlikely to be comparators in Australia.
“They (forensic toxicologists) will have likely never done this before,” Dr Robertson said.
“They’ve also got to get a pure sample of the toxin and because (death cap mushroom poisoning) is so uncommon in Australia, they would likely have to source that from overseas.
“So the question now is how quickly can you get something from Europe express post to Australia?”
He said it might be more efficient to have the samples taken to a larger forensic lab in Europe where the death cap mushroom is more common and forensic toxicologists are practised at testing it.
Dr Robertson estimated the tests would take at least six weeks to complete, meaning the results are still at least two weeks off.
How frustrating.
IMO