News reports are coming in that a man suspected of travelling from Nova Scotia with potentially hazardous chemicals has been arrested at an Ottawa hotel and identified by the RCMP as a former military biochemical weapons specialist from the United States.
Rigaku Raman Technologies, a manufacturer of handheld and portable Raman spectrometers, has introduced Progeny™ ResQ™, the new generation in handheld chemical detection. Progeny ResQ enables the detection, identification and response to chemical and hazardous threats at the touch of a button. Utilizing Raman technology, the device is an intuitive chemical analyzer and provides emergency responders, law enforcement professionals and the military with a comprehensive chemical detection range in a handheld form and has received praise from industry representatives.
Starting approximately the last week of July and as of 18 December 2014, Immediate Response Technologies (IRT) was requested to/provided over 515 Individual Patient Isolation Systems across the U.S. and to 11 foreign countries. \"We have received requests for ISOPODs from U.S. hospitals in Dallas, Houston and El Paso TX, Asheville, Winston Salem and Charlotte NC, Philadelphia and Sunbury PA, Albuquerque & Santa Fe NM, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Falls Church VA, Atlantis FL and dozens more. Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas and John’s Hopkins have also purchased our ISOPODs. We have also filled requests for the UK, Spain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Vietnam, Australia, Canada and many other countries, along with the U.S State Department and UN. Lastly, we have received requests for our products from units at Ft. Bragg and Ft. Cambell. We are also filling requests for the other items such as our FlexAir PAPRs, as well as for our filter canisters.\" All these items are made in their facility in Landover, MD.
The Universities of Bradford and Bath have produced a joint report highlighting how contemporary chemical and life science research may potentially be applied to the study or creation of incapacitating chemical agent weapons.
The Bruker Detection division today announced that the DE-tector has successfully met the new European Civil Aviation Conference's (ECAC) Common Evaluation Process of Security Equipment (CEP) for airport checkpoint screening of passengers and baggage
Alluviam’s HazMasterG3 Version 18 delivers exclusive HazMAT Quick Start best-practices playbook to responders, is endorsed by HazMatIQ and has been adopted for use in their HMEIQ training program for military and civilian hazardous materials response and EOD teams.