The MVC1000/D2 bench-top fingerprint fuming cabinet is the latest and most advanced cyanoacrylate fuming system from foster + freeman and includes many new features to improve the development of latent fingerprints, reduce cycle times and increase the throughput of evidence. The smallest system in the MVC range of self-contained fuming chambers, the MVC1000/D2 has been designed to achieve consistently high quality...

    The growing popularity of gel ink pens has, over the past 15 years, presented questioned document examiners with a unique challenge as existing techniques, developed for the analysis of traditional ink pens and the ubiquitous biro, fail to discriminate between the complex gel polymer/dye mixtures used in gel pens.   A Japanese innovation introduced in the late 1990s, the significant difference between...

  The PD2000 is a unique new imaging system capable of capturing exceptionally high quality images of documents under a selection of illumination wavebands for on-the-spot examination, database creation, or transfer via the internet to an experienced document examiner. The fully integrated system includes a high quality digital camera, a selection of high intensity multi-spectral light sources, and a large touch...

In a short study of 45 automotive paint samples, the Foster + Freeman ffTA with UV-Visible micro-spectrophotometer (MSP) module provided a means of objective colour measurement for the discrimination of visually similar automotive paint samples. Completed in-house by Foster + Freeman application specialists, the study sought to distinguish, by spectral analysis, samples of blue, green and red paints as well...

SoleMate FPX is a new and improved system that combines an extensive footwear reference database with a streamlined search interface for the rapid identification of shoe prints discovered at the crime scene. Using a simple technique of selecting shapes, text and logos to represent a suspect print, users are able to search against a database of over 31,000 individual footwear records...

  One of the world’s rarest postage stamps has been examined using a VSC6000 at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Post Museum before going to auction at Sothebys Manhattan where it is expected to sell for up to $20 million USD.   First discovered in 1873 by a 12-year-old schoolboy as he sorted through a pile of his uncles letters, the One-Cent Magenta is...

This year’s annual Foster + Freeman Global Distributor meeting took place at the Strand Palace Hotel in London and was attended by more than 75 of the companies key distribution partners from around the world. The 2-day event, being held in London for the first time, included a full agenda of product demonstrations, open discussion sessions and, most importantly, introductions...

Large numbers of counterfeit novels and text books uncovered by police in the Coquimbo region of Chile, are amongst the latest items to be seized as part of Operation Jupiter, a long-term operation by INTERPOL and the World Customs Organization (WCO), spanning 13 countries and targeting the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit products including sports clothes, sunglasses, mobile phones, car...

Questioned Document Examiners seeking to compare or identify writing inks have been urged to consider Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) as a method of rapid chemical analysis after researchers from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, demonstrated the robust and effective performance of LIBS as a method for the comparative analysis of inks. Published by the Laboratory for Forensic Chemistry at Jagellonian Universitys...

  Updated Crime-lites provide up to 10-hours constant output from a single battery charge Following a complete re-design of the Crime-lite 82 & 42 LED driver board and the addition of a new high capacity battery pack, these powerful 16x LED light sources are now able to provide the same high intensity illumination for up to 10 hours on a single battery...