Regarding errors in the appraisal of evidence, the author alleges that the court found that the confiscated substance was MDA, while a report prepared by the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs established that the substance was MDEA.

The author was arrested together with an Irish citizen, from whom 2,996 tablets were confiscated containing a substance that proved to be an amphetamine derivative known as MDA.

The main action of these aldehyde fixatives is to cross link amino groups in proteins through the formation of methylene bridges ( CH2 ), in the case of formaldehyde, or by a C5H10 cross links in the case of glutaraldehyde.

Microscopic visualization of the encapsulated bacilli, usually in very large numbers, in a blood smear stained with polychrome methylene blue (McFadyean stain) is fully diagnostic, though culture of the organism is still the gold standard for diagnosis.