Dr. John Bond, a scientist & researcher at the University of Leicester claims that he has found evidence to support his theory that: criminals who eat processed foods are now more likely to be caught by the authorities due to his new discovery. He explains how eating processed foods can result in leaving significantly more traceable evidence at the scene of the crime. At a conference at the University, Dr. Bond explained that fingerprint marks made more of a corrosive impression on metal if they had a higher salt content.
With this new discovery Dr. Bond later talked of his idea of creating a new type of profile, the "Sweat Profile". It states that he and his fellow colleges are still in the process of discussing it, but this new profile could lead to even more evidence that could potentially lead to identifying a criminal.
His research showed that his technique can reveal the marks of a finger print long after the actual print was whiped away. For example, Dr. Bond said his teqnique would allow for the fingerprints left on a small calibre metal cartrige case to be seen even after the gun was fired. So if a bullet was found at the scene of the crime, a fingerprint could be found on the metal and matched to the perp.
Dr. Bond said: “On the basis that processed foods tend to be high in salt as a preservative, the body needs to excrete excess salt which comes out as sweat through the pores in our fingers. So the sweaty fingerprint impression you leave when you touch a surface will be high in salt if you eat a lot of processed foods -the higher the salt, the better the corrosion of the metal."
Its amazing how this discovery can aid tremendously in the field of foresic science. One amazing aspect of Dr. Bond's discovery is that in cases that deal with terrorist, where the evidence is normally obliterated, if a piece of metal or shard of glass is found with sweat residue an easier assessment of the scene will be made. Dr. Bond near the end of the article gives his last remarks of how he described his study of sweat is a process of intelligent fingerprinting and how using this new form of "fingerprint" to tell us more about the individual, rather than simple identification.
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what i found intresting from the information given about the article was that if suspects eat alot of processed food they have an easier chance of being identified because of the higher salt content leaves more trace evidence and more of a finger print impression. also even if the finger prints were wipped off, with Dr. Bond's techniques they can still be found.
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