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Sure, except as per Detect Poison:

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You determine whether a creature, object, or area has been poisoned or is poisonous. You can determine the exact type of poison with a DC 20 Wisdom check. A character with the Craft (alchemy) skill may try a DC 20 Craft (alchemy) check
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Detect poison is the mechanism to use Alchemy to identify poisons, so by that logic, it means you need that spell to use the Alchemy to identify it.

Given the Alchemist's abilities with poison and so on, how come the Alchemist doesn't have detect poison in its extract list? Especially since it has many more advanced poison related extracts.

Am I stupid? Did I miss something? I get RAW, no detect poison, but it doesn't really make sense to me. I feel like there is probably a reason I am missing (some ability or something that enables an Alchemist to detect poison) or maybe it is a sheer oversight?

Could an alchemist still add it/invent it as a spell?

Thought?