Toxicology

The Toxicology Laboratory located at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Raleigh is nationally accredited by the American Board of Forensic Toxicology, Inc. and serves all 100 counties of the North Carolina Medical Examiner System by providing forensic analytical testing of specimens and evidence from medical examiner cases. The laboratory is responsible for analytical testing, records maintenance and review of analytical testing and interpretation of results for more than 10,000 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.