Stupefacient Interdiction

An interesting newsletter is out there, called Microgram Bulletin,

a monthly newsletter published by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Office of Forensic Sciences, and is primarily intended to assist and serve forensic scientists concerned with the detection and analyses of suspected controlled substances for forensic/law enforcement purposes.

It basically gives an overview of how and what kinds of drugs are being smuggled. The image above is of cocaine smuggled in rum bottles, intercepted in Seville, Spain and analyzed by the 'Stupefacient Control Laboratory' there:

The Stupefacient Control Laboratory of the Health Department (Seville, southwestern Spain) recently received 12 bottles of Venezuelan Rum, each containing a yellow liquid suspected to contain dissolved cocaine (see Photo 1). The exhibits were seized by the Police/Anti-Narcotics Enforcement Department from a passenger arriving at the Seville airport on a flight from Venezuela. The bottles were labelled as containing 0.7 liter of liquid, but the actual volumes ranged between 623 and 687 milliliters. Analysis by color testing, GC/FID, and GC/MS confirmed cocaine base (range 17.6 to 27.7 percent, average 22.8 percent). The total amount of cocaine base in the 12 bottles was 1986.9 grams. This was the largest such submission to the laboratory.

[Thanks, Boing Boing]