Revisão de literatura: uso da toxicologia na medicina veterinária forense

Abstract

Forensic toxicology is an important tool for determining the causes of death and damage caused to living beings, both animal and plant, and is a fundamental tool for providing technical evidence capable of being used in the legal environment to hold a person responsible or innocent, whether in crimes involving humans or animals. Due to this concept, this work was produced from the search of scientific studies, literature reviews, scientific research, books, manuis and public documents to determine the use of forensic toxicology not only in cases involving animals, but also in general cases. In addition to toxocology, topics related to public safety involving animals, the lack of data, and public safety problems were also addressed, especially in relation to the elucidation of cases involving domestic and wild animals, such as methods used in conventional pathology, for example, necropsy and laboratory tests that allow the determination of histopathological findings indicative of mistreatment and crimes involving the intoxication of animals. The search for public data and databases open for consultation was fundamental for the production of this work, however, even among the databases and researches of the governmental security agencies, data is still lacking, especially studies related to crimes involving animals. Most likely the lack of data involving crimes with animals comes from the lack of resources for public security, which is already suffering from several limitations in the number of professionals, especially experts, besides the lack of incentive from the government itself for the production of data, leading to a process of decrease of police intelligence for the resolution of crimes, both involving humans and animals. The following study is a literature review based on several documents and studies, and there is no proposal to conduct field research.