Nearly 15 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, air radiation doses have dropped significantly in Fukushima Prefecture, ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Response from medical and emergency personnel during the recent Boston Marathon attacks has been heralded as one of the best because of the planning and practice of ...

PERHAPS sparked by the devastating natural disasters and terrorist attacks the nation has experienced in the recent past, a renewed emphasis has been placed on ensuring that decontamination procedures ...

July 17 -- For months, many Americans have been bracing themselves for what they keep hearing is inevitable — another terror attack. Public safety officials are ...

Whether you are a member of a hazardous materials response team or a first responder, decontamination is one of the most important actions taken by emergency personnel during a hazmat or weapons of ...

Here we present a completely new DNA decontamination reagent, DNA-ExitusPlus. In comparison with conventional products, DNA-ExitusPlus guarantees fast and efficient destruction of nucleic acids ...

The main purpose of decontamination at a hazardous materials emergency is to limit the spread of contaminants from the release area, or "hot zone," to include the cleaning of responders and their ...

The FDA greenlighted its second and third systems for decontaminating N95 respirators, both previously used on-site at many health systems nationwide. Together, the agency estimates this will allow ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- With team members located in both Edgewood and Rock Island, the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center's Decontamination Engineering Branch, under Sustainment Engineering ...

On March 14, Kevin Hommema, an aerosol scientist at Battelle, a Columbus, Ohio-based research and development nonprofit, sent an email to his boss with a new idea: What if Battelle repurposed an older ...

An industrial chemical accident. An attack with a chemical warfare agent. Either of these situations can leave many people in acute need of decontamination. Until recently, the US government’s ...