SURVEY OF INDUSTRY & ACADEMIA LABORATORY CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURGE ANALYSIS CAPABILITY

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the Lead Government Department in England for co-ordinating decontamination and remediation of incident sites following attacks and major industrial accidents involving hazardous chemical and biological materials. Laboratory facilities are used for analysing environmental samples to inform decontamination and remediation decisions. Until these samples are analysed, contaminated areas would not be declared safe and habitable. Defra wishes to undertake...