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Country | Geographical coverage / Sampling frame / Type of study / Purity determined to base~salt | |
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Belgium | National / seizures sent to the laboratories for analysis following prosecutors' decision / analysis developed by 11 laboratories including data from "Project drugs in circulation" | |
Bulgaria | Local: district of Sofia / all seizures / routine analysis of seizures / base. Adulterants/cutting agents/impurities in cocaine samples: phenacetine, tetracaine, benzocaine, lactose. | |
Czech Republic | National / all seizures / routine analysis of seizures in some laboratories; not all analysis and all laboratories are included (permanent data collection twice per year) / base | |
Denmark | National (5 largest cities ) / small seizures at user's level, random selection of powder between 0,03 and 1 gram in the 5 largest cities / monitoring system / base | |
Germany | National / all seizures ≤ 1 g linked to criminal investigation / routine analysis of seizures / base | |
Estonia | National / all seizures / routine analysis of seizures / salt | |
Spain | National / seizures sample amount threshold 1 g / monitoring system / not available | |
France | National / all seizures / monitoring system / base | |
Italy | National / seizures under a specific threshold (Latium all seizures) / routine analysis of seizures | |
Latvia | National / all seizures / routine analysis of seizures / not available | |
Lithuania | National / all seizures / routine analysis of seizures / base | |
Luxembourg | National / all seizures random sampling / monitoring system / salt | |
Hungary | National / all seizures submitted for analysis of over 2 g / routine analysis of seizures / base | |
Malta | National / random sample of police and customs seizures / monitoring system | |
Netherlands | National / all samples provided by drug users containing at least 1 mg cocaine (821 samples were purchased as cocaine) / routine analysis of drug samples provided by users (no distinction can be made between cocaine-HCl and crack) / base | |
Austria | National / seizures under a specific threshold / seizures when suspicion about the substance / test purchases at street level | |
Poland | National / large seizures / routine analysis of seizures / salt and base | |
Portugal | National / random selected sample of seizures of under 1 g / routine analysis of seizures / cocaine to the salt and crack to the base | |
Romania | National / sampling of seizures according UNODC best practice manual / routine analysis of seizures | |
Slovenia | National / all seizures submitted for analysis of over 0.1 g / routine analysis of seizures / base | |
Slovakia | National / all seizures / routine analysis of seizures / base | |
Finland | National / all seizures of sample amount threshold 2 g / monitoring system / salt | |
United Kingdom | National (England and Wales) / all seizures submitted for analysis by police forces / routine analysis of seizures / base | |
Croatia | National / all seizures / routine analysis of seizures / base | |
Turkey | National / seizures sent to the laboratories for analysis due judicial or law enforcement needs / routine analysis of seizures / base | |
Norway | National / all seizures / routine analysis of seizures / salt |
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