A forensic international market survey of condom lubricants and personal hygiene products using ATR-FTIR coupled to chemometrics

Condom residues may be encountered in forensic investigations as traces in sexual assault or rape cases. Casework studies have shown the value of distinguishing condom residues from other types of personal products used by women. However, up to now, there has been no investigation of their chemical...

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Main Authors: Burnier, Céline, Coulson, Sally, Massonnet, Geneviève, Pitts, Kari, Sauzier, Georgina, Lewis, Simon
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86566
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author Burnier, Céline
Coulson, Sally
Massonnet, Geneviève
Pitts, Kari
Sauzier, Georgina
Lewis, Simon
author_facet Burnier, Céline
Coulson, Sally
Massonnet, Geneviève
Pitts, Kari
Sauzier, Georgina
Lewis, Simon
author_sort Burnier, Céline
building Curtin Institutional Repository
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description Condom residues may be encountered in forensic investigations as traces in sexual assault or rape cases. Casework studies have shown the value of distinguishing condom residues from other types of personal products used by women. However, up to now, there has been no investigation of their chemical variability within an international context. This work employed attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with chemometrics to provide objective characterisation of condom lubricants and personal hygiene products from the international market. 166 samples were obtained covering five major classes of products likely to be used by women. Principal component analysis distinguished most major classes based on their spectral profiles, with subsequent support vector machine models yielding discrimination accuracies over 90%. A two-step approach was subsequently developed and enabled both classification and a discrimination accuracy of 100%. This could provide greater confidence in chemical discrimination of residues from these products when conducting investigations and help assess the origin of the chemical profile obtained. Further testing using three validation sets produced an identification accuracy of 100% for generic classes, which may allow investigative leads to be more readily obtained from recovered evidence.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-865662021-12-03T05:46:27Z A forensic international market survey of condom lubricants and personal hygiene products using ATR-FTIR coupled to chemometrics Burnier, Céline Coulson, Sally Massonnet, Geneviève Pitts, Kari Sauzier, Georgina Lewis, Simon Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Medicine, Legal Pathology Legal Medicine Silicone Lubricants Glycerine International market Chemometrics ATR-FTIR TIME DISCRIMINATION IDENTIFICATION CLASSIFICATION SPECTRA SCIENCE PAINTS TRACES Condom residues may be encountered in forensic investigations as traces in sexual assault or rape cases. Casework studies have shown the value of distinguishing condom residues from other types of personal products used by women. However, up to now, there has been no investigation of their chemical variability within an international context. This work employed attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with chemometrics to provide objective characterisation of condom lubricants and personal hygiene products from the international market. 166 samples were obtained covering five major classes of products likely to be used by women. Principal component analysis distinguished most major classes based on their spectral profiles, with subsequent support vector machine models yielding discrimination accuracies over 90%. A two-step approach was subsequently developed and enabled both classification and a discrimination accuracy of 100%. This could provide greater confidence in chemical discrimination of residues from these products when conducting investigations and help assess the origin of the chemical profile obtained. Further testing using three validation sets produced an identification accuracy of 100% for generic classes, which may allow investigative leads to be more readily obtained from recovered evidence. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86566 10.1016/j.scijus.2021.01.005 English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ELSEVIER SCI LTD fulltext
spellingShingle Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Medicine, Legal
Pathology
Legal Medicine
Silicone
Lubricants
Glycerine
International market
Chemometrics
ATR-FTIR
TIME
DISCRIMINATION
IDENTIFICATION
CLASSIFICATION
SPECTRA
SCIENCE
PAINTS
TRACES
Burnier, Céline
Coulson, Sally
Massonnet, Geneviève
Pitts, Kari
Sauzier, Georgina
Lewis, Simon
A forensic international market survey of condom lubricants and personal hygiene products using ATR-FTIR coupled to chemometrics
title A forensic international market survey of condom lubricants and personal hygiene products using ATR-FTIR coupled to chemometrics
title_full A forensic international market survey of condom lubricants and personal hygiene products using ATR-FTIR coupled to chemometrics
title_fullStr A forensic international market survey of condom lubricants and personal hygiene products using ATR-FTIR coupled to chemometrics
title_full_unstemmed A forensic international market survey of condom lubricants and personal hygiene products using ATR-FTIR coupled to chemometrics
title_short A forensic international market survey of condom lubricants and personal hygiene products using ATR-FTIR coupled to chemometrics
title_sort forensic international market survey of condom lubricants and personal hygiene products using atr-ftir coupled to chemometrics
topic Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Medicine, Legal
Pathology
Legal Medicine
Silicone
Lubricants
Glycerine
International market
Chemometrics
ATR-FTIR
TIME
DISCRIMINATION
IDENTIFICATION
CLASSIFICATION
SPECTRA
SCIENCE
PAINTS
TRACES
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86566