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  1. Unité Fonctionnelle de Toxicologie, CHU Lille, F-59000, Lille, France

    Florian Hakim, Delphine Allorge & Jean-michel Gaulier

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    Florian Hakim, Delphine Allorge & Jean-michel Gaulier

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    Thomas Gicquel

  4. Univ Rennes, INSERM, INRAE, CHU Rennes, Institut NuMeCan (Nutrition, Metabolismes et Cancer), F-35033, Rennes, France

    Thomas Gicquel

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Hakim, F., Gicquel, T., Allorge, D. et al. Comments on “Evaluation and review of ways to differentiate sources of ethanol in post-mortem blood”. Int J Legal Med 135, 1477–1479 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-021-02529-8

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