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It is impossible to divorce the study of the analytical methods used in performing toxicological analysis on biological and related samples from the study of toxicology itself, especially clinical and forensic toxicology. By the same token, the laboratory can do nothing to help in the diagnostic process unless someone, be it a clinician, pathologist, or some other person, first suspects poisoning and ensures that specimens are collected and sent for analysis. However, appropriate sample collection and handling is not always straightforward and indeed is a subject in its own right.