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1. Field Confirmation Testing for Suspicious Substances

   By Rick Houghton

   Frequently a substance found at a port of entry, waste site, laboratory triage facility, or even in a hazardous materials emergency will be labeled and purportedly identified. But law enforcement and other first responders cannot take this claim at face value, as the accuracy is not confirmed and...

   Published April 22nd 2009 by CRC Press
2. Emergency Characterization of Unknown Materials

   By Rick Houghton

   Deliberately, accidentally, or consequentially, first responders and waste site workers handle unknown substances of varying degrees of danger every day.  Unidentified chemicals involved with clandestine production of WMD agents or drugs, explosive materials, unlabeled waste, and forensic samples...

   Published October 14th 2007 by CRC Press