The majority of the world's rum production occurs in the Caribbean and Latin America. Rum is also produced in Austria, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the Philippines, India, Reunion Island, Mauritius, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, the United States and Canada. Rums are produced in various grades.
When the cause of death is potentially related to drugs or toxins the time it takes to certify a toxicology report is related to how complicated the case is and how many drugs are detected by the initial screening assays. For relatively uncomplicated cases the results are usually certified in 14-21 days.
Here is how Dr. Ruth Winecker, chief toxicologist for the N.C. âEssentially the answer is, it depends. For cases in which we only test for ethanol (drinking alcohol) the reports are certified within 72 hours of the receipt of the specimens.