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Approximation of a pollen calendar (in French), showing the rise and fall of pollen from different plants over the year

A pollen calendar is used to show the peak pollen times for different types of plant pollen, which causes allergic reactions in certain people.[1][2][3]

A pollen calendar can be a very useful tool in forensic science, because it can be used to place the month, or week, or date of death.[4][5] The use of pollen for criminal investigation purposes is called "forensic palynology".[6][4]

However, the use of a pollen calendar to set the date of death should be used with extreme caution, and only by a carefully trained expert witness.[7] The CSI effect has put pressure on some police officers and district attorneys to provide pollen-based evidence, but such evidence "appear[s] to be of limited use in the forensic context where outcomes are scrutinised in court."[7]

  1. ^ "Pollen calendar". Food Allergy Information. Archived from the original on February 26, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
  2. ^ "HON Allergy Glossary, World Pollen Calendar". Health On the Net Foundation. Archived from the original on May 28, 2017.
  3. ^ "Pollen Calendar". National Pollen and Aerobiology Research Unit (UK). Archived from the original on May 16, 2008.
  4. ^ a b Montali, Elisa; Mercuri, Anna Maria; Trevisan Grandi, Giuliana; Accorsi, Carla Alberta (November 2006). "Towards a 'crime pollen calendar'—Pollen analysis on corpses throughout one year". Forensic Science International. 163 (3): 211–223. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2005.11.020. PMID 16412597.
  5. ^ Ray Palmer. "THE FORENSIC EXAMINATION OF FIBRES – A Review: 2004 to 2007." Interpol paper, p. 80. Found at Interpol website (PDF). Accessed February 22, 2010. Archived October 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ^ D.C. Mildenhall, P.E.J. Wiltshire, and V.M. Bryant. "Editorial: Forensic palynology." Forensic Science International, Volume 163 (2006), pp. 161–162. Found at Texas A & M University website (PDF). Accessed February 23, 2010.
  7. ^ a b Wiltshire, Patricia E. J. (2009). "Forensic Ecology, Botany, and Palynology: Some Aspects of Their Role in Criminal Investigation". Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics. pp. 129–149. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9204-6_9. ISBN 978-1-4020-9203-9.