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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When firefighters leave a burning building they are often exposed to harmful toxins, experts say. A new decontamination method seeks to lower the risk of cancer, the leading cause of ...

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) partnered with DHS and other agencies to develop two resources for managing exposure in mass chemical incidents. The two ...

Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "Bio Decontamination Market by Product (Equipment and Consumables), Agent (Hydrogen Peroxide, Chlorine Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide), Type (Chamber ...

Used dental burs may be contaminated with potentially pathogenic micro-organisms. Autoclaving alone fails to completely decontaminate burs. Manual cleaning is not as effective as other methods of ...

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 ...