Cocaine shoelace bank note. Bills had the highest percentage of cocaine with 90 percent of 234 bank notes contaminated. Every bank note in the uk is contaminated with cocaine within weeks of entering circulation experts have revealed. Banknotes tainted with cocaine. We asked a currency expert about the most coke friendly bank notes.
The news is reported in the latest edition of the royal society of chemistry journal the analyst. Download hd wallpapers of 269234 cocaine shoelace banknote. A team based at dublin city university carried out the testing on 45 notes ranging in value from five to 50 euros. Canada followed with 85 percent and.
The characteristic ions of cocaine at mz 303 182 and 82 provided clear evidence of the identity of cocaine in this currency. Thats the main way in which the cocaine gets onto the notes. Police have stopped testing notes for traces of the drug in criminal. Compared with currency from brazil canada china and japan us.
Msa based in bristol using notes supplied by the bank of englands returned notes centre in loughton in essex. Every single bank note from a random sample analysed by irish researchers has tested positive for cocaine. Free download high quality and widescreen resolutions desktop background. Traces of cocaine are now found on more than one in 10 banknotes in circulation in britain police experts told an official inquiry by the home office advisory council for the misuse of drugs.
Cocaine on the bank notes was identified by comparing the peaks with retention time of 66min with that of the cocaine standard.