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.
When the first round of positive tests have to be confirmed by the more sophisticated method, this may require sending out the specimens to more specialized laboratories. And that adds to the delay. Four to six weeks is pretty standard, Magnani says of the time line for forensic toxicology testing.