from the DEA MICROGRAM :
lThe Forensic Evidence Bureau of the Nassau County Police Department (Long Island, New York) recently received three brown plastic bottles containing a total of 425 brownish/tan tablets, suspected heroin (see Photo 5). The bottles had been mailed to a local residence from Bogota, Colombia and were seized by the Nassau County Police Department. Each bottle was labelled in Spanish as containing soy-based lecithin tablets (a phosphorus-containing “neutraceutical”), with additional information indicating the contents were a natural vitamin supplement. Each tablet was convex on one side, flat on the opposite side, 0.5 inch in diameter, and weighed an average of 1.142 grams (total net mass of all tablets 485.4 grams) (see Photo 6). Analysis by color testing, TLC, and GC/MS, however, indicated not just heroin but rather a mixture of heroin and cocaine (not quantitated, but in an approximate 60:35 ratio based on the Total Ion Chromatogram). Small amounts of acetylcodeine, monoacetylmorphine, and papaverine were also identified. This is the first ever submission of a heroin/cocaine mixture in tablet form to the laboratory (in fact, the laboratory has never previously encountered either heroin or cocaine in tablet form).