“…This paper will review theoretical aspects of the static headspace technique, as well as complementary additions to it (Kolb, 1999;Slack et al, 2003), the most significant substances from the standpoint of forensic toxicology that can be analyzed by this technique as ethanol (Kugelberg & Jones, 2007;Macchia et al, 1994;Tagliaro et al, 1992), congeners of alcoholic beverages (Iffland & Jones, 2003), inhalants (Angerer & Horsch, 1992;Seto, 1994), anesthetics (Pihlainen & Ojanperä, 1998), carbon monoxide (Boumba & Vougiouklakis, 2005;Vreman et al, 1984) and cyanide (Calafat & Stanfill, 2002;Felby, 2009); in each case, the analytical conditions and modifications necessary for the equipment to perform each analysis will be exposed, advantages and disadvantages of this technique over other existing procedures will be discussed and also, issues relating to development of methods for this technique and their validation.…”