Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2024, $37,448)
The Union County Sheriff's Office will use the JAG funds to purchase a Benchtop Centrifuge Package for our Crime Lab.
The centrifuge is for separation of biological material into organic solvents that can be analyzed on the instruments. Being able to clean up samples better will save the county money because less maintenance/consumables will be required for other instruments.
The centrifuge will be used in the toxicology lab to help clean up blood samples so that more drugs/drug types can be identified on the instrument. It will also help in the production setting (allowing more samples to be processed in the same amount of time currently being spent). It will also be used to help with separations on seized drugs, where larger amounts of samples need to be tested.
Further applications can be applied to different matrices of biological samples that go beyond just blood testing.