August 14, 2007
What’s in your wallet?
Well if you have got any bank notes, then more than likely there will also be traces of illegal drugs, yes that is true, almost every bank note in the country could have a trace of drugs on it. Now that really makes you think!
Scientists from Mass Spec Analytical Ltd and from the University of Bristol have been carrying out a UK wide study, collecting notes from England, Scotland and Wales. The objective was to collect £10 and £20 notes from different areas. Urban and rural, wealthy and poor etc. So that the test could be unbiased.
Once collected these notes were analysed by a machine call a Mass Spectrometer, this performs a chemical analysis of each the bank notes. Most of the notes had some sort of drug residue on them.
It is believed that the problem could in fact be used by criminals to try get off of drug dealing and money laundering charges.
Source [Wired]
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