The roundtable seminar will focus on the danger that fentanyl poses to security personnel and emergency responders and how detectors and identifiers can be used to mitigate risks. Variations of fentanyl such as carfentanil are 10,000 times more potent than morphine and can cause respiratory arrest in those who breathe trace particles of the narcotic. The seminar will also discuss techniques for efficiently collecting, processing, and preserving evidence during analysis.

Neil Sandhoff, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at SDI, said, “Smiths Detection is committed to providing solutions to help safeguard security personnel and emergency responders against lethal fentanyl exposure. We provide the technology, education, and resources to help public safety professionals make the best decisions using the most accurate information in the field.”

SDI’s technologies were recently adapted to detect and identify fentanyl and several of its analogues. The adapted products includ the Ionscan 600, the Target-ID and Hazmat ID Elite and the ACE-ID, a Raman identifier. SDI also offers customers access to the Reachback ID 24/7/365 hotline, which gives responders using SDI technologies access to Ph.D. scientists to support the field-based analysis of chemicals including fentanyl and several of its analogues.