We can support businesses by providing professional forensic services. We have access to up-to-date, world class facilities and an expert team with broad and varied expertise.
Our services include:
We have been involved in a exciting range of projects including:
Sports supplements – checking contents for unlisted compounds which could lead an athlete to fail a doping control test.
Drugs in hair - Dr Bassindale has been involved in many projects in this area, from legal work in New Zealand through to evaluating caffeine use in student populations.
How hot is that chilli! – one of our final year students developed a method for scientifically testing chillies to find the hottest there is!
Dr Tom Bassindale is a forensic scientist, and the founder of We Are Forensic. He's managed hundreds of forensic toxicology cases, and is an experienced court witness. He has specialist expertise in forensic toxicology and drug testing in sport. Dr B is currently a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. And yes... he watches CSI. ![Film Review – Icarus by Brian Fogle I was fortunate to be given a pass to go to DocFest to see the film Icarus, by Brian Fogle. On Tuesday 13/6/17 I […]](http://www.weareforensic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC03420-B3-36x36.jpg "Doping and AntiDoping, Pure Doublethink – Icarus Film Review"){kind=small}
![This blog post has been written after seeing many comments on a footballers drug test results and also the news that some Jamaicans had low levels of clenbuterol detected in their […]](http://www.weareforensic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/freeimage-2648300-36x36.jpg "Jamaicans and footballers: how to interpret a single urine sample"){kind=small}
![I think it is fair to say I am not unhappy to see the back on 2015 but I am really looking forward to 2016! I found 2015 to be a […]](http://www.weareforensic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-year1-36x36.jpg "Reflecting and moving onwards"){kind=small}
![One year ago I attended a Forensic Science Society meeting about research and wrote the post ‘Forensic Science Research – What Research?‘. That has been one of my most read pages […]](http://www.weareforensic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/818618_178558112-36x36.jpg "Forensic Horizons – research conference 2013"){kind=small}
![Please find below a short description of research undertaken by Yashaswini Srinivas into methods of detection of DMAA, undertaken at Sheffield Hallam University. DMAA has been in the news recently as it […]](http://www.weareforensic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/tuaminoheptane-36x36.gif "DMAA Research by YB Srinivas"){kind=small}