Science & Justice
Volume 48, Issue 4 , Pages 192-195, December 2008

Techniques for fingerprint recovery on vegetable and fruit surfaces used in Slovenia — A preliminary study

Forensic science laboratory, Stefanova 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Received 12 October 2007; received in revised form 19 May 2008; accepted 19 May 2008. published online 06 October 2008.

Abstract 

An examination was conducted to investigate whether certain dactyloscopic powders and reagents can recover latent fingerprints on vegetable and fruit surfaces (apple, banana, tomato and potato). Two fingerprint powders, Swedish Soot powder mixture (Swedish Black), Silver Special powder and cyanoacrylate fuming (CA), were investigated. The results have shown that detection with Swedish blackpowder is the most suitable procedure as the percentage finger marks which were of adequate quality for further examination, was higher than with any other technique examined.

Keywords: Latent fingerprints, Vegetables, Fruit, Enhancement

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PII: S1355-0306(08)00103-2

doi:10.1016/j.scijus.2008.05.003

Science & Justice
Volume 48, Issue 4 , Pages 192-195, December 2008

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