A critical aspect of cleaning up chemical and biological warfare agents is figuring out what the contaminant is and how far it has spread. Sandia National Laboratories’ engineer Bob Knowlton has worked [Read more]
A current Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) research effort, conducted by the U.S. Army Research Institute for Chemical Defense (USAMRICD), is exploring the decontamination properties of Veriox®, a topical antimicrobial, anti-infective and [Read more]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has published a report focused on decontaminating railcars and related materials in the event of a biological incident in a subway system. In the event of a [Read more]
An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study, conducted by the EPA’s Office of Research and Development National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC), examined methods for decontamination of drinking water infrastructure contaminated with anthrax-like [Read more]
The U.S. Navy signed an exclusive license agreement with First Line Technology on Sept. 7 for the manufacture of a lifesaving decontamination technology. ‘Dahlgren Decon’ was developed to defend servicemembers against chemical, [Read more]
U.S. Airmen from the 628th Medical Group recently put their chemical, biological, radioactive, and nuclear (CBRN) defense skills to the test during a patient decontamination exercise at Joint Base Charleston in South [Read more]
Ozone and UV light are powerful disinfectants on their own, but when ozone is exposed to UV light, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals are formed, both of which are also potent disinfectants. [Read more]
Service members with Joint Task Force Civil Support honed their disaster response skills during realistic decontamination training Aug. 25, as part of Exercise Sudden Response 16 at Fort Hood, Texas. During the [Read more]
Airmen assigned to the 22nd Medical Group decontaminate a patient during integrated in-place patient decontamination training, Aug. 4, 2016, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. The purpose of the training is to [Read more]
Experts from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Joint Science and Technology Office and the Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center are getting creative with a new decontamination System Performance Model (SPM). Led by JSTO’s [Read more]
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