Dr. Pillay

Dr. Pillay, Hair Studies

What Are The Odds?

5:36  That is one aspect I am not very sure about, to be honest, and again animal experimentation, you know, sometimes we got problems, when you try and bring it to human beings, so since that has not been shown to happen in human beings, I would say that let us leave that aside, possible… […]

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Dr. Pillay, Hair Studies

Symptoms of Cadmium Poisoning

6:00  in previous century where the contamination of some water body occurs because of cadmium and the local population use that water for patty fields and they started developing a lot of problems like bone pain especially, It came to be known as the iti, iti disease, or the Ouch Ouch disease.   Over a period

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Dr. Pillay, Hair Studies

Premature Conclusions

0.01 Based on the hair samples we are seeing…constituting proof if deliberate homicidal intent.  Over and above there are  forensic specialists whose expert opinion they have taken, and they also said such high levels of cadmium in the hair.. that the person may die within two days, this is clearly a case of manage hair

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Hair Contamination

2:00 you could not get the ideal biological samples like what you mentioned blood or urine, even the other tissues were not accessible, therefore hair which was accessible has been done… I accept all that..  Now my questions are this.  No 1. The hair sample that was done has come down I think from hand

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Cadmium IS Bad Choice

Was cadmium an ideal homicidal agent in the late 70’s? 0:30  I have already stated:  No1: cadmium is difficult to obtain Arsinic is more easily available, but cadmium is difficult to obtain and even if somebody says it is available in nickel cadmium batteries it’s difficult to extract it unless you have knowledge of chemistry… 

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Collaborative Effort?

5:00 So an isolated people giving an opinion, even if they are expert is not the right thing. 5:05 Not at all, There should be a board who are specialized and who can come up with a consensus. Yes, They should be talking to each other, they should be addressing all of this. That’s what

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Cadmium False Positives

0:21 …As to why ICPMS I am sure must be very easily available in the west… like a country like the US I am sure almost every university will have it why not do it there?  And if you did get something abnormal will NAA why did you not get it retested with ICPMS or

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